From: "DeHackEd" <dehacked72 AT nospam DOT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: What is Make??
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 17:30:04 -0500
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Kent wrote in message <674pcp$dc2 AT bgtnsc01 DOT worldnet DOT att DOT net>...
>Hey, I was just wondering what Make and Makefiles are.  Thanks, cYA
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Make and makefiles are for large projects. For example:

You have 3 files, combining them makes foo.exe:
foo.c, gfx.c, sound.c

When you make a makefile properly, make will compile:
gcc -c foo.c
gcc -c gfx.c
gcc -c sound.c
gcc -o foo.exe foo.o gfx.o sound.o

Let's say you change sound.c to incorperate a new sound card (who knows). Then
you save it and re-run make.

gcc -c sound.c
gcc -o foo.exe foo.o gfx.o sound.o

It does all sorts of neat things. Check out the DJGPP documentation for details,
or a general programming book for an overall view of makefiles.