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> If make supplied it's own shell language, a simplified one, then everything would be fantastic.

We did exactly that in build2, a modern make re-thought. And we provide a bunch of standard utilities like sed, find, etc., that work the same everywhere, including Windows. Here is an example of a non-trivial recipe: https://github.com/build2/libbuild2-autoconf/blob/17f637c1ca...



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