Other Tools
MPW included a version of make. Its syntax was conceptually similar to that of Unix make, but it used a special 8-bit character for dependencies. More significantly, since the limitations of the shell precluded the make program from running tools itself, it had to work by composing a script of compile/link actions to be run, then delivering that to the shell for execution. While this was good enough most of the time, it precluded makefiles that could make on-the-fly decisions based on the results of a previous action.
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