Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 released

Oh, it's lack of features too. A huge number of the most useful GNU Make features aren't available under lesser makes, and reimplementing them is horrifically painful at best, and sometimes impossible. Easier just to rely on a decent make.

Myself, I have trouble imagining how anyone can do anything useful without $(eval ...). Yeah, you *can* use makefile fragments, but this is so painful and unreadable as to defy easy comprehension -- and even that won't work in a make without GNU Make's auto-rereading handling of 'include'. On those, you have to generate the included file, halt, and ask people to please rerun make. Horrible.

(Make's source code is very nice, btw. Easy to add simple features to with only a few minutes' reading. Congratulations are due to Roland and Paul, this is *nice* software. For a Unix make, that is. They'll always be a bit horrible in some ways -- but all the competition is worse, often much worse.)