General and specific make questions

Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questions at mailing.thruhere.net
Tue Jun 9 13:40:51 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 09 June 2009 04:18:10 Grünewald Michaël wrote:
> Le 8 juin 09 à 23:20, Polytropon a écrit :
> > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:12:17 +0200, Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:52:17PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote:
> >>> What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that do not
> >>> suppose make is
> >>> being used for compling c/c++ programs.  Yes, I know, that is
> >>> mostly why
> >>> make exists, but many tutorials plunge right into C examples with
> >>> implicit C
> >>> rules, while -- it seems to me -- make could be much more useful
> >>> for a
> >>> variety of things, and I could sure use more of the general and
> >>> arbitrary
> >>> examples.
> >>
> >> I use make to e.g. build complex LaTeX documents with included
> >> gnuplot
> >> graphs. Works like a charm. But that it is not conceptually different
> >> from compiling a C program.
> >
> > Correct. I do the same here.
>
> I also do use make to produce LaTeX documents. I even `published' my
> collection of makefiles at https://gna.org/projects/bsdmakepscripts/

And I'm using a heavily customized version of this CA setup:
http://sial.org/howto/openssl/ca/

-- 
Mel


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