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Brief History of Automake
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This manual describes (part of) the history of GNU Automake, a program
that creates GNU standards-compliant Makefiles from template files.

   Copyright (C) 1995-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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     the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License."

Timeline

The Automake story.

Dependency Tracking Evolution

Evolution of Automatic Dependency Tracking

Releases

Release statistics

Copying This Manual

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 -- The Detailed Node Listing --

Evolution of Automatic Dependency Tracking

First Take on Dependencies

Precomputed dependency tracking

Dependencies As Side Effects

Update at developer compile time

Dependencies for the User

Update at user compile time

Techniques for Dependencies

Alternative approaches

Techniques for Computing Dependencies

Recommendations for Tool Writers

Future Directions for Dependencies

Copying This Manual

GNU Free Documentation License

License for copying this manual