On 12 Oct 98, at 20:18, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> "make" is a Unix command that's designed to maintain groups of programs.
> It uses transformation and dependency rules to automatically execute
> only the necessary commands to rebuild executables (or other targets).
-- snip --
> The genius of make is that it uses the timestamps on files to only
> rebuild those which depend on files which have been modified more
> recently. One of the joys of Unix is doing:
> cd /usr/src
> make install
> and having every single executable on the system get rebuilt
> and reinstalled while you go grab lunch.
> Make expects to find these rulesets in files named either "Makefile"
> or "makefile"; but given that you're on NT, I doubt you have "make"
> available. My guess is that somebody has written a pseudo-Makefile
> suitable for consumption by Perl to be used during the install
> process and that you're not supposed to be trying to run "make"...
> but that's just a guess.
Make should be available on evry decent compiler (of course
having make does't make a compiler a decent compiler).
Make is available on almost evry MS and Borland compilers
including the famous TASM...
and anyway... coming from the windows world I was really surprised
to be able to do
make config
make install
to rebuild my customized Linux from the SOURCE code
it's fashinating...
I gave a look to the C code but never put my hands on it!
BTW a good news for all the Linux lovers... Linux Red Hat is a best
seller in my bookstore.
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