Summary: | This book demystifies GNU make and shows you how to use its best features. You'll find a fast, thorough rundown of the basics of variables, rules, targets, and makefiles. Learn how to fix wastefully long build times and other common problems, and gain insight into more advanced capabilities, such as complex pattern rules. You'll learn how to: master user-defined functions, variables, and path handling; weigh the pitfalls and advantages of GNU make parallelization; handle automatic dependency generation, rebuilding, and non-recursive make; modify the GNU make source and take advantage of the GNU Make Standard Library; create makefile assertions and debug makefiles. --
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