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On Sun, 10 Apr 2016, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

> Or set the (g)make variable 'MAKE' to gmake & let it propogate ....

What you are doing is, in effect, creating a port.  If you create a real 
port, there are numerous tools to deal with just this sort of problem, 
like USES=gmake.

The Porter's Handbook describes the whole process of creating a port: 
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/