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Other resources from O'Reilly;
Foreword;
Preface;
The Road to the Third Edition;
What's New in This Edition;
Conventions Used in This Book;
Using Code Examples;
Comments and Questions;
Acknowledgments;
Basic Concepts;
Chapter 1: How to Write a Simple Makefile;
1.1 Targets and Prerequisites;
1.2 Dependency Checking;
1.3 Minimizing Rebuilds;
1.4 Invoking make;
1.5 Basic Makefile Syntax;
Chapter 2: Rules;
2.1 Explicit Rules;
2.2 Variables;
2.3 Finding Files with VPATH and vpath;
2.4 Pattern Rules;
2.5 The Implicit Rules Database;
2.6 Special Targets;
2.7 Automatic Dependency Generation;
2.8 Managing Libraries;
Chapter 3: Variables and Macros;
3.1 What Variables Are Used For;
3.2 Variable Types;
3.3 Macros;
3.4 When Variables Are Expanded;
3.5 Target- and Pattern-Specific Variables;
3.6 Where Variables Come From;
3.7 Conditional and include Processing;
3.8 Standard make Variables;
Chapter 4: Functions;
4.1 User-Defined Functions;
4.2 Built-in Functions;
4.3 Advanced User-Defined Functions;
Chapter 5: Commands;
5.1 Parsing Commands;
5.2 Which Shell to Use;
5.3 Empty Commands;
5.4 Command Environment;
5.5 Evaluating Commands;
5.6 Command-Line Limits;
Advanced and Specialized Topics;
Chapter 6: Managing Large Projects;
6.1 Recursive make;
6.2 Nonrecursive make;
6.3 Components of Large Systems;
6.4 Filesystem Layout;
6.5 Automating Builds and Testing;
Chapter 7: Portable Makefiles;
7.1 Portability Issues;
7.2 Cygwin;
7.3 Managing Programs and Files;
7.4 Working with Nonportable Tools;
7.5 Automake;
Chapter 8: C and C++;
8.1 Separating Source and Binary;
8.2 Read-Only Source;
8.3 Dependency Generation;
8.4 Supporting Multiple Binary Trees;
8.5 Partial Source Trees;
8.6 Reference Builds, Libraries, and Installers;
Chapter 9: Java;
9.1 Alternatives to make;
9.2 A Generic Java Makefile;
9.3 Compiling Java;
9.4 Managing Jars;
9.5 Reference Trees and Third-Party Jars;
9.6 Enterprise JavaBeans;
Chapter 10: Improving the Performance of make;
10.1 Benchmarking;
10.2 Identifying and Handling Bottlenecks;
10.3 Parallel make;
10.4 Distributed make;
Chapter 11: Example Makefiles;
11.1 The Book Makefile;
11.2 The Linux Kernel Makefile;
Chapter 12: Debugging Makefiles;
12.1 Debugging Features of make;
12.2 Writing Code for Debugging;
12.3 Common Error Messages;
Appendixes;
Running make;
The Outer Limits;
Data Structures;
Arithmetic;
GNU Free Documentation License-GNU Project-Free Software Foundation (FSF);
0. Preamble;
1. Applicability and Definitions;
2. Verbatim Copying;
3. Copying in Quantity;
4. Modifications;
5. Combining Documents;
6. Collections of Documents;
7. Aggregation with Independent Works;
8. Translation;
9. Termination;
10. Future Revisions of this License;
About the Author;
O'Reilly®: Managing Projects with GNU Make;
Colophon;