Re: make and package manager

"Jonathan Dowland" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu May 28, 2026 at 12:02 PM BST, David wrote:
> On Thu, 28 May 2026 at 02:40, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. <[email protected]> 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?
>
> Hi, the canonical user reference for Gnu Make is the Gnu Make Manual [1].

It's most likely that OP got exactly that when they read "info make".

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