Re: make and package manager

Greg Wooledge <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 12:52:18 -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 May 2026 08:29:09 am Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > "make" is a tool used in software development.  It has a man page:
> > <https://manpages.debian.org/make>
>  
> Looked that over,  then tried "info make" which had a bit more in it,  but not as much as I'd like.  I have tried to read makefiles and find it difficult to get a handle on just what's going on there.  Do you know of any other resources that might help with this?

I wrote <https://wooledge.org/~greg/make-tutorial.txt> a very long
time ago.  It's *really* beginner-level.  I'm sure there are better
ones somewhere.
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.