Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!alice!andrew From: andrew@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: make and RCS. was RCS and SCCS Summary: origin of % metarules Message-ID: <8025@alice.UUCP> Date: 5 Jul 88 18:00:28 GMT References: <16366@brl-adm.ARPA> <19713@watmath.waterloo.edu> <24935@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ Lines: 10 the % style metarules come from stu feldman in a version of make that was first released as the make for research unix, version 8. it is also the style supported by mk. as for the claim that gnu invented rule chaining, it is hard to believe. i may have this wrong but i thought rule chaining simply meant doing transitive closure over rules; if this is the case then mk has been doing it for three years.