- Make - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
GNU Make has many powerful features for use in makefiles, beyond what other Make versions have It can also regenerate, use, and then delete intermediate files which need not be saved
- Automatic Variables (GNU make)
What you do is use a special feature of make, the automatic variables These variables have values computed afresh for each rule that is executed, based on the target and prerequisites of the rule
- GNU Make Manual - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
This manual (make) is available in the following formats: HTML (1040K bytes) - entirely on one web page HTML - with one web page per node HTML compressed (212K gzipped characters) - entirely on one web page HTML compressed (260K gzipped tar file) - with one web page per node Info document (176K bytes gzipped tar file)
- How Make Works (GNU make)
make reads the makefile in the current directory and begins by processing the first rule In the example, this rule is for relinking edit; but before make can fully process this rule, it must process the rules for the files that edit depends on, which in this case are the object files
- GNU make - How to Use Variables
Every environment variable that make sees when it starts up is transformed into a make variable with the same name and value But an explicit assignment in the makefile, or with a command argument, overrides the environment
- Introduction (GNU make)
Most often, the makefile tells make how to compile and link a program In this chapter, we will discuss a simple makefile that describes how to compile and link a text editor which consists of eight C source files and three header files
- MAKE Variable (GNU make)
As a special feature, using the variable MAKE in the recipe of a rule alters the effects of the ‘ -t ’ (‘ --touch ’), ‘ -n ’ (‘ --just-print ’), or ‘ -q ’ (‘ --question ’) option Using the MAKE variable has the same effect as using a ‘ + ’ character at the beginning of the recipe line
- GNU make
GNU make This file documents the GNU make utility, which determines automatically which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled, and issues the commands to recompile them This is Edition 0 77, last updated 26 February 2023, of The GNU Make Manual, for GNU make version 4 4 1
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