acgmake
was heavily inspired by the tmk
tool of Hartmut Schirmacher, Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science in Saarbruecken. tmk's main feature (and problem) is that it is based completely on TCL. Therefore the makefile syntax as well as the syntax of the configuration and module files is based on TCL, too. This can be a problem for people that do not know TCL (like me).
Since everybody developing on Unix systems should have seen a GNU Makefile before I based acgmake
on GNU make
and bash
only.