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This is make.info, produced by makeinfo version 6.5 from make.texi.
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This file documents the GNU 'make' utility, which determines
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automatically which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled, and
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issues the commands to recompile them.
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This is Edition 0.74, last updated 21 May 2016, of 'The GNU Make
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Manual', for GNU 'make' version 4.2.1.
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Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996,
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1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,
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2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
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Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
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Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts
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being "A GNU Manual," and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a)
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below. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
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"GNU Free Documentation License."
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(a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: "You have the freedom to copy and
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modify this GNU manual. Buying copies from the FSF supports it in
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developing GNU and promoting software freedom."
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INFO-DIR-SECTION Software development
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START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
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* Make: (make). Remake files automatically.
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