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To: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. 
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
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In message <199606200230.TAA01704@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU>, Josh MacDonald writes
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>Has anyone thought seriously about how difficult it would be to
>write a tool that automatically bmakes a piece of software?  I

Been there, done that.

src/gnu/gnu2bmake. 

Not fun.

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