From: Fabrice ILPONSE <fabrice AT trash DOT lip6 DOT fr>
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Subject: Re: What is Make??
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:08:46 +0100
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Kent wrote:
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> Hey, I was just wondering what Make and Makefiles are.  Thanks, cYA
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Make is a tool that optimize the shell actions. I mean it do not execute
commands that are not nedded for example recompile a file that haven't
change. In the Makefile, you've got rules to do that.
eg.
	toto.o: toto.c
		gcc -o toto.o toto.c

toto.o will be created only if the actual toto.o do not correspond to
toto.c. To know that Make check the creation dates of toto.c and toto.o!
  
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