Need help deciphering posix.mak

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d]

"Dicebot"  wrote in message news:kgogertqxpmczhoqrimp at forum.dlang.org...

> 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.

As much as I dislike digital mars make, requiring GNU make on windows would 
be worse.  One of these days I'm going to rewrite the dmd test suite to not 
require make at all, but I'm going to have to figure out how it works first.