NAME make – utility for building and maintaining groups of programs. DESCRIPTION make The purpose how to make chocolate chip cookies the make utility is to determine automatically which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled, and issue the commands to recompile them. In fact, make is not limited to programs.
You can use it to describe any task where some files must be updated automatically from others whenever the others change. To prepare to use make, you must write a file called the makefile that describes the relationships among files in your program, and the states the commands for updating each file. In a program, typically the executable file is updated from object files, which are in turn made by compiling source files. These options are ignored for compatibility with other versions of make. Change to directory dir before reading the makefiles or doing anything else. This is typically used with recursive invocations of make. Print debugging information in addition to normal processing.