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GNU Make Manual

How-to

Define targets with recursive wildcards
Get the second prerequisite
Manage background processes
Pass additional variables from command line
Refer variables defined later
Run make within make
Split Recipe Lines
Tweak variables for a specific rule

Discussions

Automatic Prerequisites, Auto-Dependency Generation
Can I define a pattern rule with no recipe
Chained Rules
Double-Colon(::) Rules
Implicit Rules(Pattern Rules) vs Static Pattern Rules
Multiple Rules for One Target
Special Recipe Prefixes(@echo, -rm, etc)
What if multiple pattern rules match a target?
What is stem in Pattern Rules
Which file name should I use? Makefile, makefile, GNUMakefile, …
Why exported variables in Makefile is not received by executable?

Reference

$(filter-out pattern…,text)
$(filter-out pattern…,text)
$(foreach var,list,text)
$(word n,text)
Automatic Variables($@, $<, etc…)
CLI Options
Conditionals(ifeq, etc)

Index

Functions functions/
GNU Make Manual manual/
Makefile makefile/
Rules rule/
Variables variable/