doc/make.info

   1 This is make.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.13 from make.texi.
   2
   3 This file documents the GNU `make' utility, which determines
   4 automatically which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled,
   5 and issues the commands to recompile them.
   6
   7    This is Edition 0.72, last updated 9 October 2013, of `The GNU Make
   8 Manual', for GNU `make' version 4.0.
   9
  10    Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996,
  11 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,
  12 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  13
  14      Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
  15      document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
  16      Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
  17      Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts
  18      being "A GNU Manual," and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a)
  19      below.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
  20      "GNU Free Documentation License."
  21
  22      (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: "You have the freedom to copy and
  23      modify this GNU manual.  Buying copies from the FSF supports it in
  24      developing GNU and promoting software freedom."
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  26 INFO-DIR-SECTION Software development
  27 START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
  28 * Make: (make).            Remake files automatically.
  29 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
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