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What (who) is makefiles - definition

STANDARD UNIX UTILITY AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FOR BUILD AUTOMATION
Makefile; Makefiles; Mk (software); GNU make; Mk (Plan 9); Make file; Gmake; Nmake; GNU Make; Make (Unix); Make software; Dmake; .PHONY; Make clean; NMAKE

makefile         
A script which tells the Unix program "make" how to build a particular computer program or set of programs. A makefile contains variable assignments and rules of the form target: inputs commands which say if any of the files in "inputs" has been modified more recently than file "target" (or if the target does not exist) then execute "commands", which will normally bulid "target" from "inputs". If make is run with no arguments, it looks for a makefile called "Makefile" or "makefile". (1995-01-05)
dmake         
Required by uC++. ftp://plg.uwaterloo.ca/pub/dmake/dmake38.tar.Z. [What is it?] (1994-11-02)

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Make (software)

In software development, Make is a build automation tool that builds executable programs and libraries from source code by reading files called Makefiles which specify how to derive the target program. Though integrated development environments and language-specific compiler features can also be used to manage a build process, Make remains widely used, especially in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.

Make can be used to manage any project where some files need to be updated automatically from others whenever the others change in addition to building programs.