Brief History of Automake ************************* 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 document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in 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 How to make copies of this manual -- 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