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From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Do people really use Make?
Summary: an alternative
Message-ID: <9773@alice.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 89 06:19:31 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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	i am the author of mk, one of the many variants on make.
mk (source) is available from the at&t toolchest for a small fee.
there is a paper on mk in the 1987 summer usenix (phoenix) proceedings,
or you can mail me to send you a copy.

	for all that, mk is still much the same as make. it has several
improvements: much faster, recipes are pure shell scripts, transitive
closure on metarules (it can figure out to use %.a:%.b and %.b:%.c
to derive a %.a from a %.c) and numerous other goodies.

andrew hume
andrew@research.att.com
research!andrew