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Managing file interactions with make

General form

The general form of an entry in a description file is

   target1 [target2 ...] :[:] [dependent1 ...] [; commands] [# ...]
   [ \t commands] [# ...]
    . . .

Items inside brackets may be omitted and targets and dependents are strings of letters, digits, periods, and slashes. Shell metacharacters such as ``*'' and ``?'' are expanded when the commands are evaluated. Commands may appear either after a semicolon on a dependency line or on lines beginning with a tab (denoted above as ``\t'') immediately following a dependency line. A command is any string of characters not including #, except when # is in quotes.


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