From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 17 07:00:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA12883 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 07:00:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [206.246.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA12871; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 07:00:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by earth.mat.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA08870; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 09:59:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 08:59:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@picnic.mat.net To: Jacques Hugo cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: makefile howto In-Reply-To: <34473A8C.52BFA1D7@wired.ctech.ac.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Jacques Hugo wrote: > Hi there ... > > I'm looking for some info on using Makefiles. > > Can anyone point me to a FAQ/URL? I'd really recommend buying the O'Reilly book "Managing Projects With Make". Make is an incredibly important, and really basic tool for software engineering, and worth knowing pretty well, and the O'Reilly book does a good job with it. > > Thanks > > -Jaques > > ------------------------------------------------------ > The box said "Requires Windows 3.1 or better" > ... so I got BSD > > System Administrator | Jacques Hugo > UNIX Systems | jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za > Cape Technikon | +27-21-4603584 > ------------------------------------------------------ > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------