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Abstract: Make is a program that is widely used to maintain and update programs and libraries on UNIX* systems. This paper introduces the Fourth Generation Make which embodies major semantic and syntactic enhancements to the standard make program. The enhancements include support for source files distributed among many directories, an efficient shell interface that allows concurrent execution of update commands, dynamic dependency generation, dependencies on conditional compilation symbols and a powerful ... (Update)
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...file packaging has been included in POSIX 1003.2. Our tools provide a wide range of functionality. Below are a few examples: ffl nmake[3]: A far more powerful make language that supports dynamic dependency generation and a higher level specification language. ffl iffe[6] We...
...generated yet (or worse, the compilation will succeed by using an old and possibly incompatible y. tab.h) A fundamental feature of nmake [Fowl85][Fowl90] GNU make [SM89] and mk [Hume87] is that prerequisite lists are not ordered. In contrast to other makes, nmake also provides...
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: Fowler, Glenn S.: The Fourth Generation Make, Proceedings, Summer 1985 USENIX Conference, p. 159-174. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/fowler85fourth.html More
@inproceedings{ fowler85fourth,
author = "Glenn S. Fowler",
title = "The Fourth Generation {Make}",
month = "Summer",
pages = "159--174",
year = "1985",
url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/fowler85fourth.html" }
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2 KSH -- A Shell Programming Language (context) - Korn - 1983
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