This is Info file make.info, produced by Makeinfo-1.63 from the input file ./make.texinfo. 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 0.51, last updated 9 May 1996, of `The GNU Make Manual', for `make', Version 3.75 Beta. Copyright (C) 1988, '89, '90, '91, '92, '93, '94, '95, '96 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation.  File: make.info, Node: Rule Syntax, Next: Wildcards, Prev: Rule Example, Up: Rules Rule Syntax =========== In general, a rule looks like this: TARGETS : DEPENDENCIES COMMAND ... or like this: TARGETS : DEPENDENCIES ; COMMAND COMMAND ... The TARGETS are file names, sep ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !