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A Brief Introduction to Makefiles in Open Source Software Development with GNU Make

GNU Make is a development utility which determines the parts of a particular code base that are to be recompiled and can issue commands to perform those operations on the code base. This particular make utility can be used with any programming language provided that their compilation can be done from the shell by issuing commands.

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