On Fri 29 Mar 10:28, Yuri wrote: > GNU Make now handles variable substitutions differently, see the discussion > here: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65533 > This causes it to sometimes fire exponentially more sub-processes than > before. > > Some other ports that use a lot of variable substitutions in a particular > way would also be affected, but science/nwchem is acutely affected, to the > point that it times out. > > > I will add devel/gmake43 to remedy this situation. > > > > > > Yuri >
>From the discussion it clearly sounds like an abuse of gmake, and that upstream Makefiles should be fixed instead of bringing back gmake43 Bapt
