Bell Labs had a simpler alternative in IFFE [0], that consisted of a single shell script [1]. You would specify any required headers, libraries and tests in a s

Bell Labs had a simpler alternative in IFFE [0], that consisted of a single shell script [1]. You would specify any required headers, libraries and tests in a simple text file [2]. [0] https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/glenn-fowler/iffe.pdf https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/glenn-fowler/iffe... [1] https://github.com/att/ast/blob/master/src/cmd/INIT/iffe.sh https://github.com/att/ast/blob/master/src/cmd/INIT/iffe.sh [2] https://github.com/att/ast/blob/master/src/cmd/3d/features/syslib https://github.com/att/ast/blob/master/src/cmd/3d/features/s...