Managing Projects with make

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1. OhMeadhbhJun 2024
   Andy Oram's Managing Projects with Make is my goto reference, but there's a market for a make cookbook, I bet.
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2. simonblackDec 2018
   I bought what seemed to be overstock or maybe it was just being remaindered in a 50%-off Uni Bookshop sale about 20 years ago. It's a tiny (80 page) little book called "Managing Projects with make" by Steve Talbot and printed by O'Reilly and Associates.

   Most of what I know about 'make' I learned from this book.

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3. mzsJul 2015
   I appreciate what the person is trying to do, just quickly jot down some notes for new people.

   For the first concern, phony is mentioned a bit later, likely did not want to start-off with added complexity for the reader.

   For the second point, but then bar.foo and baz.foo are already there and would be up to date, so what's the point in that? Most cases it's not what you want, that note is pointing-out a common gotcha.

   So though precisely you are totally correct, it's not what the author was going for.

   Some opinion of mine now. I do not like GNU make document linked. It goes into too much detail and then close to the end is just a short warnings about how so much of the above was GNU specific. I prefer the BSD make man page, but obviously that is not a good starting point for someone new to make. I recommend the book "Managing Projects with make" personally.

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4. olefooApr 2013
   Managing Projects with Make 3rd edition http://oreilly.com/openbook/make3/book/index.csp

   This is the definitive reference to the software that lifts you from writing software to building software systems.

   See also http://bost.ocks.org/mike/make/ for why it's still a useful book, 27 years after the first edition. Compare that to most of the technical books you own; most of which were hopelessly obsolete by the ripe age of 27 months.

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5. DigitalJackApr 2013
   It says that Archive.org is producing pdfs of these books, but I'm not having any luck finding the Managing Projects with Make as a pdf. Anyone else see it?

   EDIT: I misunderstood, it's at archive.org's openlibrary project: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL3823216W/Managing_projects_wi...

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