make — Maintain, Update, and Regenerate Related Programs and Files

Synopsis

/usr/ccs/bin/make [-d][-dd][-D][-DD][-e][-i][-k][-n][-p][-P][-q] 
  [-r][-s][-S][-t][-V][-f makefile]...[-K statefile]... 
  [target][macro=value] 
/usr/xpg4/bin/make [-d][-dd][-D][-DD][-e][-i][-k][-n][-p][-P][-q] 
  [-r][-s][-S][-t][-V][-f makefile]...[target][macro=value] 

Description

Use the make command to reduce the compilation time for large projects. You use a makefile to specify a list of dependencies between source files and the target application. The make command uses makefile to determine the minimum recompilation needed to rebuild the application. make uses file-system modification dates to determine which files are newer than their dependents. Then, make rebuilds ...

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