This file documents the GNU Make utility, which determines automatically which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled, and issues the commands to recompile them.

This is Edition 0.60, last updated 08 July 2002, of The GNU Make Manual, for `make`, Version 3.80.

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## Make

The GNU `make` utility automatically determines which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled, and issues the commands to recompile them.

This edition of the GNU Make Manual, last updated 08 July 2002, documents GNU `make` Version 3.80.

This manual describes `make` and contains the following chapters: