The GNU Make Book 1st Edition

by John Graham-Cumming (Author)

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GNU make is the most widely used build automation tool, but it can be challenging to master and its terse language can be tough to parse for even experienced programmers. Those who run into difficulties face a long, involved struggle, often leaving unsolved problems behind and GNU make's vast potential untapped.

The GNU Make Book demystifies GNU make and shows you how to use its best features. You'll find a fast, thorough rundown of the basics of variables, rules, targets, and makefiles. Learn how to fix wastefully long build times and other common problems, and gain insight into more advanced capabilities, such as complex pattern rules. With this utterly pragmatic manual and cookbook, you'll make rapid progress toward becoming a more effective user.

You'll also learn how to:

Master user-defined functions, variables, and path handling
Weigh the pitfalls and advantages of GNU make parallelization
Handle automatic dependency generation, rebuilding, and non-recursive make
Modify the GNU make source and take advantage of the GNU Make Standard Library
Create makefile assertions and debug makefiles

GNU make is known for being tricky to use, but it doesn't have to be. If you're looking for a deeper understanding of this indispensable tool, you'll find The GNU Make Book to be an indispensable guide.

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John Graham-Cumming is a longtime GNU make expert. He wrote the acclaimed machine learning–based POPFile email filter and successfully petitioned the British government to apologize for its treatment of Alan Turing. He holds a doctorate in computer security from Oxford University and works at CloudFlare.

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Publisher: No Starch Press; 1 edition (April 16, 2015)
Language: English
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Mick Charles Beaver

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July 27, 2015

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A coworker once told me that "GNU Make isn't the build system you need, it's the build system you deserve." I have to agree with that. GNU Make is a real-world tool for real-world problems and is arguably rough around the edges because of this.

Appropriately, "The GNU Make Book" is a well-written walk through on how to debug and understand GNU Make and its quirks. It is a book written for programmers with more than a few scars on their fingertips. While you should look elsewhere for a tutorial or a complete reference, this one of a kind book will at least give you an umbrella as you weather the storm of tears that often comes with inheriting someone else's Makefile. Nowhere else will you find as many high-quality and in-depth examples for flexing the mainstream features of a Makefile, profiling a slow build, and debugging the various things that can go wrong.

It's relatively short and relatively cheap. Would buy again. A+++.

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Niklas Andersson

Buy Autotools instead

June 22, 2016

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Supposedly this book is for beginners, but the author starts with explaining all kinds of make variable expansion. IMHO it would make a lot more sense to teach Make by example, building and evolving a hello world project for example. You are much better of buying the book Autotools (also from No Starch Press) that does exactly that - a much better resource when it comes to learning Make in my opinion.

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T. A. Brown

Terrible

February 13, 2017

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This book is an ineptly written, poorly organized mess. For example, on the first page of the first chapter, the 'info' function is used with no description given of what its operation is, or what its arguments are. A few pages later the 'firstword' function is used -- again with essentially no description. This is quickly followed by uses of the unexplained .PHONY target, and 'filter' function. Although it's possible in all of these instances to still gather some understanding from the usage context, that's actually beside the point: it's likely that this book will be purchased as either a tutorial (in which fundamental concepts are methodically introduced), or as a reference (in which concepts are exhaustively explained); and, in both use cases, this book fails miserably.

Although -- if based solely on content -- this book probably deserves a two-star rating, I gave it a one-star because I'm actually in a worse position for having purchased it: the much superior GNU Make Manual can be downloaded for free; so, the money I spent on this book was essentially wasted.

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Guilherme Maciel Ferreira

The book should be called "GNU Make advance tricks" or something like that. This is not a book that lays ...

June 20, 2016

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Suitable for intermediate users, not beginners. In the first chapter, the author quickly reviews the GNU Make "basics" that make you feel a newbie. The book should be called "GNU Make advance tricks" or something like that. This is not a book that lays a solid foundation on GNU Make. Neither it teaches the fundamentals. It's a collection of tricks for advance users. Though it's still useful.

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Frank Gleeson

For example the review section describes target and pattern local variables which were perfect for solving a build problems I wa

November 1, 2016

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Very detailed book on GNU make. It is a reference book for my library, so I review it as needed. However it is chock full of detail. For example the review section describes target and pattern local variables which were perfect for solving a build problems I was having at the moment. While the GNU docs are good they tend to be terse and light on details. This book picks up where the GNU Make manual leaves off.

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Leonard J. Turrietta

Bummer

December 31, 2016

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currently on page 70. I've learn more about GNU make from the internet then I've learn from this book.

Worked on all the examples upto page 98 and then went page by page doing examples here and there. Till the end of the book.

Gee i really wanted to learn GNUmake but it must be harder then i had initially assumed.

I plan to continue the search of having GNUmake skills but for now this book will just sit on my shelf.

If this book was intended to teach me how GNU make can be used in real applications. Then the author failed!

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Gregory Levin

Best make file book

August 6, 2018

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Best make file book

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Jeffrey Wheeler

I can't recommend this book

April 16, 2016

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I can't recommend this book. It could really use some introductory materials, and the author is quick to suggest modern features which aren't available on relatively-recent platforms without necessarily making that clear.

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