On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Richard Braakman wrote: > The GNU tools are generally excellent. You're asking us to throw > them out in exchange for... what? Some mystical advantages of > Portability? The opportunity to have to deal with other people's bugs? `` Don't write portable make files, use a portable make '' Is still my favorite quote and very much directly applicable to this argument. I fully belive in that sentimate, btw. Jason