Need help deciphering posix.mak

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 4 December 2014 at 23:19:21 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Dmitry Olshansky"  wrote in message 
> news:m5qe1c$218a$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
>> 04-Dec-2014 18:32, Dicebot пишет:
>> > Please no additional 3d-party dependencies for D core tool 
>> > stack.
>>
>> What are current 3rd-party deps? Dependency on DMC make and 
>> compiler is already there, GNU make is not installed by 
>> default on FreeBSD.
>>
>> What would you suggest we do?
>
> Write a build script in D?

That or just clean up the existing makefiles (getting rid of DMC 
make and using GNU make on all platforms would be ideal). Or just 
doing nothing - while existing build system is quite a mess, the 
problem is not critical enough to extend the infrastructure.