January 18, 2011 | Making Sense of 'make' | Back Next |
"A makefile consists of dependency lines of text which define a target ... followed by a colon and optionally a set of files on which the target depends."
target [target ...]: [component ...]
"After each dependency line, a series of lines of tab-indented text may follow which define how to transform the components (usually source files) into the target (usually the 'output')."
target [target ...]: [component ...] [<TAB>command 1] . . . [<TAB>command n]
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