Allows the user to maintain, update and regenerate related programs and files. GNU make improves upon standard make's default rules, rules-writing capabilities and variable processing, and supports conditionals and functions. Includes GNU install, a more powerful version of the standard UNIX utility. Smalltalk GNU implementation of one of the first object-oriented languages, including a large class library. Basic data management routines that allow the creation of disk-based hash tables for use by programs.
GNU dbm routines are much more bug-free than standard versions.