A question on RCS and GNU-make

[Rich Salz]

In <652 at macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> amoffat at sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Andrew Moffat) writes:
> The RCS doco states: "MAKE has been extended with an auto-checkout
> feature for RCS".  Is this referring to GNU-make, or some other
> version of make?
The RCS docs are refering to a Purdue-modified version of make.  Similar work
was done at CMU.

I believe GNU make has something similar, and with pattern rules you can get
something pretty close with most modern make's -- SystemV augmented make, SunPRO
make, nmake, mk, etc., etc...
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