<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 2008 (1.71) original version by: Nikos Drakos, CBLU, University of Leeds * revised and updated by: Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swan * with significant contributions from: Jens Lippmann, Marek Rouchal, Martin Wilck and others --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>1 Introduction</TITLE> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="1 Introduction"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="internals"> <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="LaTeX2HTML v2008"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Style-Type" CONTENT="text/css"> <LINK REL="STYLESHEET" HREF="internals.css"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node3.html"> <LINK REL="previous" HREF="node1.html"> <LINK REL="up" HREF="internals.html"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node3.html"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#4444FF" alink="#3388FF"> <B> Next: <A NAME="tex2html30" HREF="node3.html">2 From `make' to</A> </B> <B>Up: <A NAME="tex2html28" HREF="internals.html">GNUstep Makefile Package Internals</A> </B> <B> Previous: <A NAME="tex2html22" HREF="node1.html">internals</A> </B> <BR> <P> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H1><A NAME="SECTION00020000000000000000"> 1 Introduction</A> </H1> This short document attempts to explain simply how the gnustep makefile package works internally. When I first wrote this document, the mechanism used to be extremely complex, involving many recursive make invocations; I have now simplified it so that it involves only a single recursive make invocation per target/type/operation. As a result, I hope that the mechanism is now so simple that you can figure out how it works without reading this document, by just reading the gnustep-make source code. Anyway, the thing might still not be still totally trivial at a first approach, so this document might help you to get familiar with the gnustep-make source code in a shorter time and with less pain. <P> <BR><HR> <ADDRESS> 2009-06-03 </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>