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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Build procedures
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:43:58 +0000 (UTC)
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"CBFalconer" <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> Martin Dowie wrote:
>>
>> I seem to remember that within the last few months there was a
>> posting here which mentioned a quote about how any project should
>> be able to be built with a single command from a command line.
>> Unfortunately Google search hasn't shed any light on this message.
>> Does anyone know the quote? Who said/wrote it? Title of
>> publication? The actual quote?
>
> On most systems the command is "make".  Depending on the makefile,
> it might require an argument or two.

'make' doesn't pull out a particular version of code from a config-control 
program, or automatically run regression tests, or put the resulting output 
back under config-control and label it, or create an installation program 
etc...