Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!zodiac!joyce!sri-unix!quintus!sun!gorodish!guy From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: make and RCS. was RCS and SCCS Message-ID: <58843@sun.uucp> Date: 5 Jul 88 07:49:09 GMT References: <16366@brl-adm.ARPA> <19713@watmath.waterloo.edu> <24935@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 11 > We're not exactly sure who invented it. I don't know where we got it > from, but it was somewhere. Stu Feldman, author of the original "make", probably; I think he discussed it at a talk here, and the authors of the "SunPro make" (the optional "make" in SunOS 3.5 and later, and the standard "make" in 4.0) picked it up from there. > I have not heard of Sun's Make doing anything of the kind. What > version are you using? Well, now you have. Presumably, they're using the "SunPro make" version.