[bug #59395] gmake space handling is not compatible to POSIX

[Jörg Schilling]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #59395 (project make):

Could you explain why gmake deviates from make in such
an important point?

I believe that .POSIX should be reserved to cases where the POSIX
standard does not agree with the behavior of the historic UNIX
make. This however does not apply to this case.

I fear that not fixing bugs in the default behavior could result in
an ecosystem of non-portable makefiles.

BTW: If there are really makefiles that depend on this bug, I
would prefer to see something line .GNU to enable the bugs
for unfixed makefiles.

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