Christian Nybø <chr(a)mediascience.no&gt; writes: Yes and no. I am ashamed of how little progress has been made modernizing make over the years and how much it tends to vary from system to system. I don't think standardizing on GNU Make is a bad thing. As to other system building tools, when it doesn't hurt, they should be supported. I find it hard to advocate usage of GCC and EGCS because the quality varies spectacularly from version to version and EGCS is very much a moving target right now. See my posting about GCC flags -vs- GCC version from a few days ago.