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Re: learning make
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Paul Smith |
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Re: learning make |
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Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:50:32 -0400 |
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 04:27 -0700, Payal wrote:
> Hello all
> I am not a C/C++ coder at all. I am a part-time sys adm which requires me to
> use a lot
> of shell scripting and some perl. But for a long time I was intrigued to
> learn make.
>
> My question is - with my background, can I learn make or do I have to know
> C/C++ beforehand?
You don't need to know any programming language to use make.
Make is a tool used to update a set of target files, based on changes to
a set of source files. That's it. Any time you have a situation where
you modify some files, then want to run a predefined set of steps to
update other files, you could use make.
People use make for all sorts of tasks that have absolutely nothing to
do with programming: updating web sites, creating documentation,
performing backups, and a whole host of other things we probably would
never think of.
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- learning make, Payal, 2009/07/08
- Re: learning make,
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