Table of Contents



•	Table of Contents
•	Index
•	Reviews
•	Examples
•	Reader Reviews
•	Errata
•	Academic

Managing Projects with GNU make, 3rd Edition
By Robert Mecklenburg

Publisher	: O'Reilly
Pub Date	: November 2004
ISBN	: 0-596-00610-1
Pages	: 320

The Road to the Third Edition

What's New in This Edition

Conventions Used in This Book

Using Code Examples

Comments and Questions

Acknowledgments

Part I: Basic Concepts

Chapter 1. How to Write a Simple Makefile

Section 1.1. Targets and Prerequisites

Section 1.2. Dependency Checking

Section 1.3. Minimizing Rebuilds

Section 1.4. Invoking make

Section 1.5. Basic Makefile Syntax

Chapter 2. Rules

Section 2.1. Explicit Rules

Section 2.2. Variables

Section 2.3. Finding Files with VPATH and vpath

Section 2.4. Pattern Rules

Section 2.5. The Implicit Rules Database

Section 2.6. Special Targets

Section 2.7. Automatic Dependency Generation

Section 2.8. Managing Libraries

Chapter 3. Variables and Macros

Section 3.1. What Variables Are Used For

Section 3.2. Variable Types

Section 3.3. Macros

Section 3.4. When Variables Are Expanded

Section 3.5. Target- and Pattern-Specific Variables

Section 3.6. Where Variables Come From

Section 3.7. Conditional and include Processing

Section 3.8. Standard make Variables

Chapter 4. Functions

Section 4.1. User-Defined Functions

Section 4.2. Built-in Functions

Section 4.3. Advanced User-Defined Functions

Chapter 5. Commands

Section 5.1. Parsing Commands

Section 5.2. Which Shell to Use

Section 5.3. Empty Commands

Section 5.4. Command Environment

Section 5.5. Evaluating Commands

Section 5.6. Command-Line Limits

Part II: Advanced and Specialized Topics

Chapter 6. Managing Large Projects

Section 6.1. Recursive make

Section 6.2. Nonrecursive make

Section 6.3. Components of Large Systems

Section 6.4. Filesystem Layout

Section 6.5. Automating Builds and Testing

Chapter 7. Portable Makefiles

Section 7.1. Portability Issues

Section 7.2. Cygwin

Section 7.3. Managing Programs and Files

Section 7.4. Working with Nonportable Tools

Section 7.5. Automake

Chapter 8. C and C++

Section 8.1. Separating Source and Binary

Section 8.2. Read-Only Source

Section 8.3. Dependency Generation

Section 8.4. Supporting Multiple Binary Trees

Section 8.5. Partial Source Trees

Section 8.6. Reference Builds, Libraries, and Installers

Chapter 9. Java

Section 9.1. Alternatives to make

Section 9.2. A Generic Java Makefile

Section 9.3. Compiling Java

Section 9.4. Managing Jars

Section 9.5. Reference Trees and Third-Party Jars

Section 9.6. Enterprise JavaBeans

Chapter 10. Improving the Performance of make

Section 10.1. Benchmarking

Section 10.2. Identifying and Handling Bottlenecks

Section 10.3. Parallel make

Section 10.4. Distributed make

Chapter 11. Example Makefiles

Section 11.1. The Book Makefile

Section 11.2. The Linux Kernel Makefile

Chapter 12. Debugging Makefiles

Section 12.1. Debugging Features of make

Section 12.2. Writing Code for Debugging

Section 12.3. Common Error Messages

Part III: Appendixes

Appendix A. Running make

Appendix B. The Outer Limits

Section B.1. Data Structures

Section B.2. Arithmetic

Appendix C. GNU Free Documentation License—GNU Project—Free Software Foundation (FSF)

Section C.1. 0. PREAMBLE

Section C.2. 1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS

Section C.3. 2. VERBATIM COPYING

Section C.4. 3. COPYING IN QUANTITY

Section C.5. 4. MODIFICATIONS

Section C.6. 5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS

Section C.7. 6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS

Section C.8. 7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS

Section C.9. 8. TRANSLATION

Section C.10. 9. TERMINATION

Section C.11. 10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE