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I'm not sure if that text was an opinion or a fact. It is better to remove it and let people choose if they are going to use GNU Make or CMake.
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'''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]].
'''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.


==Version==
==Version==

Revision as of 16:59, 8 April 2022

GNU Make
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Name GNU make
Version 3.81-k2 (2017-11-12)
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.

Version

  • 3.81-k2 (2017-11-12)
  • 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

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