GNU Make

A Program for Directing Recompilation

GNU make Version 3.77.

May 1998

Richard M. Stallman and Roland McGrath


The GNU make utility automatically determines which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled, and issues the commands to recompile them.

This edition of the GNU Make Manual, last updated 20 May 1998, documents GNU make Version 3.77.

This manual describes make and contains the following chapters:


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