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From: gwollman@jhunix (Garrett A Wollman)
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Subject: Imake (was: Re: Peter's gripes)
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Date: 1 Feb 90 19:29:32 GMT
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(I lost the references because RN died on followup... ah well...)

Henry was saying something about how he needs tools to reliably build on a
wide variety of machines, in response to Peter's comment about Imake.

Imake is a tool which was developed (I believe) by MIT to make
machine-independent source releases.  I have never compiled the Imake
program myself, but as far as I have seen, it does provide a very good
capability to separate the machine-dependent definitions of a Makefile from
the actual dependencies.

I believe it's distributed under the same deal as the Athena software.

-GAWollman