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GNU Make
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Name	GNU make
Version	4.2 (2016-05-22)
Vendor	Free Software Foundation
Author	Neil Russell (Original author) Paul Smith (maintainer)
Licence	GNU GPL v2 and GPL v3
WWW	https://www.gnu.org/software/make/

GNU Make (gmake) is a UNIX Make clone from the GNU project. It allows to define dependencies, handles macros very easily and is quite a flexible tool for many purposes. Was very popular as a free make like tool on OS/2 a few years back, but most users have gone to the better maintained and mostly compatible CMake.

Version

3.8.1-r3 (2009-09-28) - Ported by Andreas Buening.
4.2 (2016-05-22)

Publications

Robert Mecklenburg: Managing Projects with GNU Make, Third Edition - O'Reilly 2004, ISBN 0-596-00610-1

Links

GNU Make Manual

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 ==Version==
-* 3.8.1-r3 (2009-09-28) - Ported by Andreas Buening. There are several older GNU MAKE versions available for [http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=make- download at hobbes] that might be more appropriate if you are either compiling an older project ([[EMX]] project for instance) or need a better grade of adaptation to using \ in paths instead of /.
+* 3.8.1-r3 (2009-09-28) - Ported by Andreas Buening.
 * 4.2 (2016-05-22)