I have had some compatibility problems between NetBSD/bsd-compatible
Makefiles and the make (GNU) on Linux and MkLinux.  Any time I do a
.include <bsd.prog.mk>, they give a missing separator error (with GNU make
under Linux/MkLinux).  Several programs' distributions also have this
problem.


Since those makefile includes appear to be BSD'isms, and work just fine
under NetBSD, I have three questions:

1. are those actually in separate makefiles somewhere or are they some
strange, semi-implicit rules?

2. if they're actually makefiles in themselves, is there any reason that I
couldn't include them as part of a not-for-profit distribution to allow
compatibility with non-BSD systems?  Are there copyright issues involved?

3. are they likely to work under Linux (a semi-BSD system) with GNU make?


   polite
Any^suggestions would be welcome.

TIA,

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