Short Contents 1 Overview of make -- 1 2 An Introduction to Makefiles -- 3 3 Writing Makefiles -- 11 4 Writing Rules -- 23 5 Writing the Commands in Rules -- 43 6 How to Use Variables -- 57 7 Conditional Parts of Makefiles -- 71 8 Functions for Transfo
The make utility automatically determines which pieces of a large program need to be recompliled, and issues commands to recompile them. This manual describs GNU make.
