What if you want to make postscript from troff files?
Mk is a general tool and a good one. But it will never
have intricate knowledge about the files it works on.


2013/3/25 dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
>
> if mk understood 8c's construct ``#pragma lib "libbio.a"'' and used it to
> link
> correct libraries, it could be said to understand the actual dependencies
> as
> expressed by code.
>
> of course, the deeper you go into this rabbit hole, the closer you get to
> something resembling GNU autotools.
>
>