Useful gmake Recipes

Reusable targets for gmake

The venerable make program comes in many flavors. It has numerous quirks. And it offers only a very restricted interface. Yet it remains an important tool for organizing project builds, deploys, and other operations. If you use make in your projects, chances are that you use gmake. Here are some useful tricks to use with gmake. Which make? Do you work on a system where make is not gmake? If you inadvertently invoke make, do you get a long list of syntax errors? [Read More]
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