Jan 6, 2019 · For variable assignment in Make, I see := and = operator. What's the difference between them?

Jul 10, 2010 · From Managing Projects with GNU Make, 3rd Edition, p. 16 (it's under GNU Free Documentation License): Automatic variables are set by make after a rule is matched. They …

Aug 2, 2009 · The language accepted by GNU make is a superset of the one supported by the traditional make utility. By using 'gmake' specifically you can use GNU make extensions …

May 29, 2013 · What does the following do in a Makefile? rule: $(deps) @: I can't seem to find this in the make manual.

make is a GNU command so the only way you can get it on Windows is installing a Windows version like the one provided by GNUWin32. Anyway, there are several options for getting …

In the GNU Makefile manual, it mentions these prefixes. If .ONESHELL is provided, then only the first line of the recipe will be checked for the special prefix characters (‘@’, ‘-’, and ‘+’). What …

Both forms are equivalent in GNU make; however only the ‘::=’ form is described by the POSIX standard [...] 2012. The value of a simply expanded variable is scanned once and for all, …

You can print out variables as the makefile is read (assuming GNU make as you have tagged this question appropriately) using this method (with a variable named "var"):

Aug 16, 2016 · subsystem: cd subdir && $(MAKE) The value of this variable is the file name with which make was invoked. If this file name was /bin/make, then the recipe executed is cd subdir …

Dec 23, 2016 · As you can read in the GNU make manual, the percent acts as a wildcard. The first argument of the patsubst function forms the pattern. Each item/word in the last argument …