GNU make enhancement contribution

[buff]

Hi Paul (and others),

As part of my work at Boise State University and
Hewlett-Packard's Boise labs, I have made what I believe to
be valuable enhancements to GNU make. I'd like to contribute
my changes.

I wrote a paper describing my work:

    http://cs.boisestate.edu/~buff/files/amake.pdf

It's only eight pages long, with three of them being figures
and bibliography. Here's the abstract:

    A new software-build tool is described, which adds
    automatic dependency analysis to GNU Make. It monitors
    commands executed, programs executed, shared libraries
    opened, files accessed, current working directory, and
    environment-variable values. The problem and the
    solution's iterative development is presented as an
    example of practical software engineering.

Please tell me if you are interested in these changes.

I have not, yet, modified the texinfo documentation. If you
would prefer to read about my changes in that format, tell
me and I'll do so.

Thanks.

-- Jim

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