Need help deciphering posix.mak

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On Friday, 5 December 2014 at 17:47:10 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Dicebot"  wrote in message 
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>> How is it really different? Both require external tool, both 
>> are available via prebuilt windows binary. At least you can 
>> build GNU one yourself.
>
> Because I already have to install dmc and dm make comes with 
> that.

Not really. I personally used msvcc when investigating dmd 
failures on Windows and was forced to download dmc only for 
dmake. I don't think it is uncommon.