4.3. Final Notes

How Make Works

• Makefiles watch the time-stamps for files, if the source files time stamps are newer than the target, the target needs to be rebuilt and any targets depending on it need to be rebuilt as well.

More Information

• More information on makefiles can be found in the info file, accessible via the pinfo make command, or by typing: info:make in the Konqueror address line. There is also an online version of the document on GNU.org.