dmd/druntime/phobos makefile horror

[Brad Roberts]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

> On Friday, 16 December 2011 at 15:48:50 UTC, Trass3r wrote:
> > (Another really bad one is dmd's makefile not allowing to specify
> > debug/release while the windows version sort of does)
> 
> I wonder, would it be hard to write our own make implementation (in D) to
> replace the DigitalMars one? The goal would be to add support for all the GNU
> extensions that the posix makefiles use (and the win32 ones make up for with
> metric tons of copy-pasta), perhaps add built-ins for common POSIX commands,
> and unify the makefiles.

It'd be a lot harder than just using gnumake which already does all that.  
Why invest all the time it'd take when a very workable solution already 
exists?