>the intention was to support building both inside and outside the Inferno >environment,
oh. and just like Plan 9 mkfile's and for the same reason, Inferno's mkfiles were essentially concise lists of the names of inputs and the names of outputs, with few instructions, which suited my little brain. ``My last company switched to nmake, and they're OUT OF BUISINESS :-) :-) :-)'' [fortune]