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Drivel from an Idiot

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#2218From: Steve FaiwiszewskiOct 14, 1988 11:30 PM
Make can be used with *ANY* language, including Modula-2. Make works by reading a file (usually called Makefile) which contains rules of file dependencies (i.e. which files depend on other files). Make then first recompiles source files which are more recent than the correspoding object files (meaning they were modified and therefore need recompiling), and then recompiles every file that depends on a file that it previously compiled. Hope this is clear enough. For the exact format of the Makefile you must refer to your Make's documentation (or try to get a Unix manual that explains Make).