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Here's a more in-depth and easy to read guide for beginners: http://www.computerhope.com/unix/umake.htm http://www.computerhope.com/unix/umake.htm If you want

Here's a more in-depth and easy to read guide for beginners: http://www.computerhope.com/unix/umake.htm http://www.computerhope.com/unix/umake.htm If you want to see some interesting/convoluted Makefiles, get a very complex, large piece of software (something from Gnome, possibly) and use autoconf & automake to generate the Makefiles, then pour through them to see how they tick.

voltagex_ 10y ago
Fixing autoconf/automake issues (particularly when autotools is upgraded) is one of the least fun things to do. Make is fine. Automake is horrific.
nneonneo 10y ago
For the target audience (total Make beginners) poring through autogenerated makefiles might not be such good advice. It's functionally equivalent to telling people to learn Bash by studying a `configure` script, or learning JavaScript by studying EmScripten output. If you're decent with Make and want to learn advanced tricks, then by all means go right ahead, but 95% of Make users will never need to delve into such details.