GNU Make fork with D support

[bachmeier]

On Friday, 23 April 2021 at 17:29:06 UTC, Dennis wrote:
> On Friday, 23 April 2021 at 16:37:15 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>> Regardless, I am not saying that you should not attempt to get 
>> this merged upstream--but in the interim, I think most D 
>> programmers would find it much easier to download and 
>> `include` a makefile fragment than to install an entire 
>> separate version of `make` from source.
>
> +1
>
> My impression of `make` was that it's generating generic target 
> files using generic shell commands with generic files as input. 
> I didn't know there was special support for languages. That 
> being the case, my preference would be:
>
> 1. upstream native support
> 2. additional file with rules for D
> 3. special D version of `make`

I guess my first preference would be the D compilers handling it. 
Just as `dub init` creates a new Dub project, `dmd dlang.mk` 
dumps dlang.mk in the directory and a Makefile that includes it.