Linux Make Utility Manual

Referene Guide for GNU Make Utility

The make utility automatically determines which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled, and issues commands to recompile them. This manual describes make, which was implemented by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. Development since Version 3.76 has been handled by Paul D. Smith.

The GNU Make Reference Guide provides beginners with a simple introduction to the basics, and experts will find advanced details they need.

In this you will see the following things below.

1 Overview of make

2 An Introduction to Makefiles

3 Writing Makefiles

4 Writing Rules

5 Writing Recipes in Rules

6 How to Use Variables

7 Conditional Parts of Makefiles

8 Functions for Transforming Text

9 How to Run make

10 Using Implicit Rules

11 Using make to Update Archive Files

12 Extending GNU make

13 Integrating GNU make

14 Features of GNU make

15 Incompatibilities and Missing Features

16 Makefile Conventions

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