[Coco] Re: Re: make and friends was Re: CCASM for Linux

[John R. Hogerhuis]

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 16:54, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:47:09AM +0000, Rodney V Hamilton wrote:
> > In article <20041215002026.GC4357 at tuxdriver.com>, 
> > linville at tuxdriver.com says...
> > >On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:15:07AM +0000, Rodney V Hamilton wrote:
> 
> > >> The AT&T UNIX make used m4 as its macro processor, so for anyone who
> > >
> > >You sure about that?  m4 and make don't strike me as having much
> > >in common...
> > 
> > It's possible that I was thinking of xmkmf, the X Window System's makefile
> 
> Now, that I'd believe... :-)
> -- 
> John W. Linville

BTW, IIRC,  M4 is described and implemented in the 1976 book "Software
Tools," (Kernighan and Plauger).