From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Trying to figure out makefiles
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 22:12:49 +0100
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> > Of course, make can do more than this, and I can't help but point out too
> > that Brian probably wants to turn warnings on since this so easy to do in
> > a makefile.  Here's a slightly more advanced version (but not more
> > advanced than a beginner could cope with after browsing the info pages, I
> > think):
> > 
> > CFLAGS = -Wall
> > 
> > proj13.exe: video.o testmain13.o
> > 	gcc -o $@ $^
> 
> The last line should have probably used $(CC) instead of a hard-wired
> "gcc".

Indeed it should.

> But why do you say this is too much for someone who looked in the
> manual?

I didn't.  I meant this is *not* too much for someone who read the docs -
the inference being that there are lots more clever things to do with
make once the user is practiced with it.