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Managing Projects with Make (Nutshell)
 
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Managing Projects with Make (Nutshell) (Paperback)

by Andrew Oram (Author), Steve Talbot (Author), Steve Talbott (Author)
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  • Paperback: 168 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA; New edition edition (1 Oct 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0937175900
  • ISBN-13: 978-0937175903
  • Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.1 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 726,643 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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make is one of UNIX's greatest contributions to software development, and this book is the clearest description of make ever written. Even the smallest software project typically involves a number of files that depend upon each other in various ways. If you modify one or more source files, you must relink the program after recompiling some, but not necessarily all, of the sources. make greatly simplifies this process. By recording the relationships between sets of files, make can automatically perform all the necessary updating. For large projects with teams of programmers and multiple releases, make becomes even more critical. But in order to avoid spending a major portion of your maintenance budget on maintaining the Makefiles, you need a system for handling directories, dependencies, and macro definitions. This book describes all the basic features of make and provides guidelines on meeting the needs of large, modern projects. Some of the issues addressed in the second edition include: Projects covering several directories. Maintaining consistency when building variants of a program. Automatic generation of header file dependencies. Forced rebuilds of existing files. A description of free products that contain major enhancements to make. Listings of the features that vary between different versions of make and simple ways to test them. More detail and examples on common errors, use of the shell in make, formal rules of syntax in make, and support for various utilities.

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make is one of UNIX's greatest contributions to software development, and this book is the clearest description of make ever written. It describes all the basic features and provides guidelines on meeting the needs of large, modern projects. Also contains a description of free products that contain major enhancements to make .

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3.0 out of 5 stars Useful yet disapointing, 4 Dec 1997
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I found managing projects with make to be below the usual very high quality of O'Reilly books. That is to say if it was by some other publisher I would be pleased with it, but O'Reilly has so consistently produced very high quality technical books that I was disappointed by the lack of depth.

I still feel reasonably safe in recommending it as a good book to learn how to use make, but that's all it is. It would be nice to include more information about how use it for applications beyond simply compiling c, assembly, and lib's into applications.

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2.0 out of 5 stars You're better off reading the GNU make documentation, 27 Dec 1997
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I'm an ardent consumer of O'Reilly books, but I was quite disappointed with the quality of their make book. I read it about 5 years ago with a rudimentary understanding of make, yet it did little to further explain things I already knew.

I recently read the GNU make documentation and clarified many fuzzy make concepts. I recommend it over the ORA make book. Besides, GNU make is cooler than vanilla make. 8-)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Solid but lacking in some areas, 17 Jul 1997
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The author does an excellent job of covering a complex subject. However, from the view of a fairly new unix user assigned to manage a complex project, the book did not introduce and explain the subject in as clear a manner as needed. It is a book that must be read more than once in order for all of the pieces to come together. The use of object libraries was treated on only a couple of pages but not to the depth needed for this user to produce make files that will efficiently compile and link the source files and libraries used in his project. David Hamill
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