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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.

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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