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

[Rodney V Hamilton]

In article <20041215002026.GC4357 at tuxdriver.com>, 
linville at tuxdriver.com says...
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>On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:15:07AM +0000, Rodney V Hamilton wrote:
>> In article <d8.1b73d0a7.2eefdc71 at aol.com>, 
>> KnudsenMJ at aol.com said...
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>> >Well, m4 is "after my time."   Wasn't till after I left Bell Labs  that I 
>> >found all those C++ features had been backhauled into "ANSI" C.   --Mike 
K.
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>> The AT&T UNIX make used m4 as its macro processor, so for anyone who
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>You sure about that?  m4 and make don't strike me as having much
>in common...
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>John

It's possible that I was thinking of xmkmf, the X Window System's makefile
generator instead but it's been a few years now and my manuals are long gone.
So no I'm not sure.  (so much for relying on memory)  {sigh}

On the other hand, it looks like cpp and m4 have a lot in common.
-Rodney