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		zingermc on Dec 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An opinionated approach to GNU Make There are some GNU Makefiles that invoke `make` manually instead of `$(MAKE)`. On FreeBSD, where `make` is bmake, this is a pain in the ass.

asveikau on Dec 18, 2019 [–]

I agree that would be bad, but I haven't personally seen a lot of that. Increasing awareness of the $(MAKE) variable I guess would be the solution.

Of course the "recursive make considered harmful" paper also articulates pretty well why such a usage may have its own problems. http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf

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