In order to automate a build process, several open source tools are available and a few of them are widely used in different development environments. Make is the standard UNIX tool to automate the steps required to create the required binary images from the sources, checking the dependencies for each component, and executing the steps in the right order. Make is a standard POSIX tool, and it is part of many UNIX-like systems. In a GNU/Linux distribution, it is implemented as a standalone tool, which is part of the GNU project. From this point on, the GNU Make implementation is simply referred to as Make.
Make is designed to execute the default build by simply invoking the make command with no arguments from the command line, ...
