Can fmake be deleted?

[Julio Merino]

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 5/5/14, 7:41 PM, Hartmut.Brandt at dlr.de wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've seen that you've copied all the make tests over to usr.bin/make with
>> a comment that they are fmake-only. According to your question they are to
>> be removed.
>>
>> Isn't bmake based on some version of fmake? In fact several of these tests
>> check for bugs that I've fixed in our fmake some years ago. Are they now
>> reintroduced via the bmake import? Wouldn't it make sense to retain the
>> tests that apply to bmake?
>
>
> so this brings up the question on my mind which is;
>
> So what's up with bmake?
> How does it relate to the old FreeBSD make?
> Why did we need a  new make?  what does it get us?

I don't know the details of why the import of bmake was originally
done (although I suspect sharing code with NetBSD had something to
do).  But: why does any of this matter at this point?  bmake is
already the default build tool and I bet this was already discussed
years ago when the code was first originally imported...