I went looking for this many years ago, and found my own request on 9fans (!!), which Andrey answered by pointing me to "going for baroque", another classic. But this paper had eluded me. No longer.
https://archive.org/details/login_jan94/page/n31/mode/2up?q=imake "I said, in a review I wrote for this newsletter that Software Portability with imake [Paul DuBois, 1993. Software Portability with imake. O'Reilly & Associ¬ ates, Inc.] is a fine book: well-written, well-edited, and useful. Here, I'll argue that it's a fine book about a dreadful idea: imake. Actually, I've seen enough imake-like make front-ends to suspect that such things are as common as peas. I don't like any of them. Why?" ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T512d3f5d65569af9-Mc0dee6bc6e3f91ebbaa63f4a Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
