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Comment by wahern | Hacker News Reader

Has Apple backported anything recent to their forked gmake? Have they ever backported any features for that matter?

Apple does not ship any version of gmake. The only included make is BSD make.

On my machine (Golden Gate):

   [2026-10-01 9:35:10] % which make
   /usr/bin/make
   [2026-10-01 9:35:39] % /usr/bin/make --version
   GNU Make 3.81
   Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
   There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

   This program built for i386-apple-darwin11.3.0

On Sequoia it was the same.

You can get an updated gmake via brew.

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/make

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