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<p><i>make</i> is one of UNIX's greatest contributions to software development, and this book is the clearest description of <i>make</i> ever written. Even the smallest software project typically involves a number of files that depend upon each other in various ways. If you modify one or more source files, you must relink the program after recompiling some, but not necessarily all, of the sources.</p> <p><i>make</i> greatly simplifies this process. By recording the relationships between sets of files, make can automatically perform all the necessary updating.</p> <p>For large projects with teams of programmers and multiple releases, <i>make</i> becomes even more critical. But in order to avoid spending a major portion of your maintenance budget on maintaining the <i>Makefiles</i>, you need a system for handling directories, dependencies, and macro definitions. This book describes all the basic features of <i>make</i> and provides guidelines on meeting the needs of large, modern projects.</p> <p>Some of the issues addressed in the second edition include:</p> <ul> <li>Projects covering several directories.</li> <li>Maintaining consistency when building variants of a program.</li> <li

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Author

Oram, Andrew; Talbott, Steve

Publisher

O'Reilly & Associates; O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780937175903

Category

reference

Subjects

Computer Science, Reference

Rating

3.52 / 5 (40 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14