[kazinator]

We don't literally use make, exactly as it was forty years ago.

> Here is a very beautiful, readable, portable makefile: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Makefile

That's a GNU Make Makefile. It's portable to installations where you have GNU Make ported already.

[Spivak]

Look, this battle has been lost for ages. People only seem to write portable Makefiles by accident and usually just target the implementation of make on the platform they're developing on.