https://github.com/leostera/making-makefiles

A small set of koans to learn about Makefiles
https://github.com/leostera/making-makefiles

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A small set of koans to learn about Makefiles

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/leostera/making-makefiles
• Owner: leostera
• Created: 2017-02-09T08:15:57.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-02-09T12:09:37.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-29T21:06:44.094Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: introduction, koans, makefile, presentation
• Language: Vim script
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• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Making Makefiles

A brief Lunch & Learn about Makefiles

Clone from: https://github.com/ostera/making-makefiles

by @ostera

# History

Make was created a long time ago. It's been around since 1976.

Before Make there used to come bundled both `make` and `install` shell scripts

that would help building and installing the project.

Lastly, it's ultimate purpose was to abstract out dependency tracking, allow for

composability of targets, and handling of files/archives.

# Trivia

1. It has at least 4 rewrites (bmake, pmake, fmake, nmake)

2. Was created at Bell Labs by Stuart Feldman

3. Fedlman got the 2003 ACM Software System Award for it

# Composition

### Targets

* Typically define files in the file system

* Are checked for modification time

* May have Dependencies (Other Targets)

# Composition

### Variables

* Can be input from the outside world

* Can have default values

* Can be exported for scripts and other makefiles

# Hands-On

We need to know 3 things:

1. We invoke a target by naming it: `make target-name`

2. We specify a different makefile with the flag `-f path/to/makefile`

3. The file extension is just a convention

Without further ado...

# The End

Questions?