On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 16:24:56 -0800
Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I hate to provide information so basic as to be insulting.  But
> perhaps a few people don't know what "make's" purpose in life is.
> 
> It is simple.  You give make a "target". ...

Or the first target is the default.

Basically make keep track of the depency tree for generated files. There are 
general depency rules for file endings so not all depencies have to be listed 
and there are functions to search directories for files. GCC have functions to 
list include files which is very useful then calculating dependencies.

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