make -b does what?

[Barry Shein]

>>	Beats the hell out of me.  I can't even find make in my (6th
>>edition) Unix manual at all.  Did I get a defective manual?
>
>That's because it isn't a flag in older makes.  It is a flag to a newer
>make (just where the newer started I'm not sure) that gives it some 
>form of compatibility with the older make.  

No, I think that's because make was not distributed with V6.

I believe make first came out of PWB which was a much later
distribution (mostly V6 based, but with things like make added in.)

Originally the V6 kernel and utilities were built with shell scripts
called "run" or something like that.
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        -Barry Shein

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