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Alternative perspective: Why is make your newest dependency? It is a very uninteresting part of a project and you can target a slightly older version.
That's usually true except that this project is about the Makefile itself 😁 I'm working on a set of useful recipes, targets and variables which I've always missed from Make's out-of-the-box offering - something like a stdlib/utils for Make.
And yes, as you may have already guessed, I've had to deal w/ Makefiles relatively frequently 😀