Managing Projects with Make

by Steve Talbott, Andrew Oram, Andy Oram

Book Overview

"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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0937175900
• ISBN13: 9780937175903
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

a handy guide

This book is a good book to have handy, for people like me who sometimes struggle with makefiles. It is short, easy to read, and packed with information that will save you time.

This is what I was looking for

I was looking for a book that could help me in creating make scripts. A colleague had this book and he shared with me. I liked it a lot and so bought it for myself.

You may even find this book helpful in Windows

Unfortunately there is nothing quite like this book (at least that I have ever found) for Windows nmake. In a former life I was a Unix programmer and I found this book invaluable, especially for creating custom suffix rules and recursive makefiles. Now that I am a Windows developer, I still refer to this book on occasion.There is a lot of information packed in this book. Read it carefully, as it is easy to miss important information. I have marked up my copy with a highlighter pen and have a number of Post-It's stuck on those important sections. Perhaps a better layout, with wider margins and bulleted notes in the margins would have made it more readable and easier to find things after it has sat on the bookshelf for a while.For the most part this book also applies to the Microsoft nmake utility (comes with Visual C++). I have yet to find anything equivalent for nmake, and the MSDN information on nmake is severely lacking. Apparently the folks at Microsoft believe everyone uses the built-in development environment in VC++, but for managing and building complex projects it is absolutely necessary to write and maintain your own makefiles.

The book explain make clearly

Followed comments from previous reviewers, I look make infomation at gnu site, but I cannot understand make. After I take a look at this book, in half day I understand almost all the make tricks. This book explain make clearly. Highly recommended.

we really need an updated edition that covers gnu make

This was a good reference book when it originally came out. But these days, who doesn't use GNU make? O'Reilly should come out with either an updated version that covers GNU make as well as vanilla make or they should release two separate books.