Writing Makefiles

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008, Steve Jardine wrote:
>Heya,

>Can anyone point me to an in-depth tutorial for writing Makefiles? It seems
>like voodoo black magic to me. It is easier to write shell scripts to do a
>minimal cross-compile, but my company will want Makefiles.

>Ideas anyone? Hey, any tutorial will be a good start! Man pages are, well
>explanatory challenged...

There's a New Riders book devoted to the GNU autotools and Makefiles, ``GNU
Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool'' which covers this.

I first learned about writing Makefiles in Kernighan and Pike's
book ``The Unix Programming Environment''.

Bill
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