Make Utility Release
Stuart Feldman's Make utility was officially released as part of Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX) and later included in Version 7 Unix, making it widely available to the nascent Unix community.
Significance
This marked the birth of automated dependency-based build systems, fundamentally changing how software projects were managed and compiled, setting the standard for all subsequent build tools.
Key facts
- Date
- 1977-04-01
- Type
- invention
- Location
- Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey