20. Make
One other very useful tool is make [7].
During development,
make recompiles only those modules that have been changed
since the last time make was used.
It can be used to automate other tasks, as well.
Some common conventions include:
- all
- always makes all binaries
- clean
- remove all intermediate files
- debug
- make a test binary 'a.out' or 'debug'
- depend
- make transitive dependencies
- install
- install binaries, libraries, etc.
- deinstall
- back out of "install"
- mkcat
- install the manual page(s)
- lint
- run lint
- print/list
- make a hard copy of all source files
- shar
- make a shar of all source files
- spotless
- make clean, use revision control to put away sources.
Note: doesn't remove Makefile, although it is a source file
- source
- undo what spotless did
- tags
- run ctags, (using the -t flag is suggested)
- rdist
- distribute sources to other hosts
- file.c
- check out the named file from revision control
In addition, command-line defines
can be given to define either Makefile values
(such as "CFLAGS")
or values in the program
(such as "DEBUG").
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