4.1. Introduction to GNU make
The make utility has been used for a very long time in all types of software development projects. There are open-source as well as commercial variants available from many vendors. The most common and popular distribution of make is the GNU make, which is open source and is available for almost all UNIX and Microsoft Windows platforms. All of the Linux distributions have the GNU make as a standard package with the development system. If you have installed development software from a distribution, you don't need to install any additional software for make to work. The version of make currently installed can be displayed using the following command.
[root@conformix make]# make -v GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard ...Get Linux Development Platform: Configuring, Using, and Maintaining a Complete Programming Environment, The now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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