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What's IOOCC (no Google results), and what was that entry? Could you link to it?

They probably meant to say "IOCCC," the International Obfuscated C Code Contest and they're referring I think to this entry:

Wow, that Makefile rule...

    smr: smr.c
        @${RM} -rf smr
        ${CP} smr.c smr
        ${CHMOD} +x smr

why the "wow"? Looks ok to me.

Copy a .c file to an executable is definitely not ok, normally you'd call the compiler here.

It only works because it is a very special c file.

It's a misspelling of IOCCC - international obfuscated C coding competition.

Does misspelling count as obfuscation?