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In the section "From dissemination back to ethos" A sentence starts like this: "make is a Script" Uh? Really? file /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/make: ELF 64-bit LS
by javier_e06 3y ago
In the section "From dissemination back to ethos" A sentence starts like this:
"make is a Script"
Uh?
Really?
file /usr/bin/make
/usr/bin/make: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=3b0ddf3be104de4e5e023681f6db3c143c5ad798, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped
make is a program, not a script. Maybe it was a script back then. What was the interpreter?
Every time I get with badly cooked Makefile a song comes to mind:
"I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind"
- dmd 3y agoWait until you find out about what's happened to /bin/true in different unix variants over the years.
- tcard 3y agoThe earliest version I could find [1] is already written in C. [1] https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Research-V7/usr/src/cmd/make/main.c https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...