Understanding `Make' - index

Title:

Introduction to "make" for Handling Software Projects

Abstract:

As software projects grow, the task of re-compiling and linking the code together to produce an executable program becomes increasingly more difficult or lengthy. Investing a little time in understanding "make" and creating your own "Makefile" pays enormous dividends reducing the debugging cycle and self-documenting the tasks necessary to produce an executable. "make" is a simple and useful tool that compares the dependencies in the "Makefile", with respect to the source file time stamps, executing the given commands to create an up-to-date dependent. This discussion starts with very simple "Makefiles" to more involved and fiendishly clever ones, examining each aspect of "make".

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Other resources:

• make-makefile mkmf by Balaji at GSFC at http://www.gfdl.gov/~vb/mkmf.html
• GNU autoconf - automatic configuration scripts
• GNU automake - generates Makefiles according to the GNU coding standards. (Requires GNU autoconf)
• NERSC tutorial on _Make
• "Managing Projects with make, 2nd Ed.", Andrew Oram & Steve Talbott, 1991, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.