Make (software)#Modern versions

GNU Make ( gmake short ) is the GNU implementation of make frequently used in the UNIX world program. Compared with the traditional functions it contains a number of extensions. GNU make is not fully compatible to make, because the backslash is not treated POSIX compliant and since the shell calls are made without the '- e' option breaks GNU make further processing is not always expected to leave after failing command calling from. On Linux hosts, the GNU version is installed as a make utility in the rule. Since version 4.0, GNU Guile is supported as an extension language.

GNU Make has been implemented by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. Since version 3.76 the development of Paul D. Smith is headed.