THE UNIX-BASED BUILD TOOL

ERICKSON, V. B. + J. F. PELLEGRIN.

Build - A Software Construction Tool. [In: AT&T Bell LaboratoriesTechnical Journal, July-August 1984, Vol. 63 No. 6 Part 2].

[N.Y., AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1984]. 8vo. In the original yellow wrappers. A nice and clean copy. Pp. 1049-1059 (Entire volume: 1 leaf + pp. 1007-1212).

First description of the UNIX-based Build tool.

"The Build tool is used as a sophisticated method of generation and modifying software system. Build is being used successfully by a number of UNIX software-based projects at AT&T Bell Laboratories. [...] The Build tool is being used by a number of large software development projects as the primary software generation tool. Build plays a central role in the development strategies and standards used in these projects". (From the introduction to the present article).

"Unix is unquestionably the most influential operating system ever developed; is has influenced virtually every subsequent operating system, including MS-DOS, Mac OS, Sun' Solaris, and many more". (Pfaffenberger, Bryan. Linux clearly explained, 1999, p. 3).

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