Re: Goodbye to GNU make's "build.sh" ... ?

[David A. Wheeler]

> On Jun 27, 2022, at 9:48 AM, Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> As mentioned, the goal of "build.sh" is to allow systems without an
> already-existing make program to bootstrap themselves, by providing a
> way to build GNU make without using "make".

I think it's important that there be *a* way to rebuild
to support "bootstrappable builds"  <http://bootstrappable.org/>
and diverse double-compiling (DDC) <https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust>.
The overall goal would be to counter the "trusting trust" attack.
Being able to rebuild using another existing "make" is an obvious way to do 
that.

I'm not so picky on *how* to do that.

--- David A. Wheeler