Make your first target 'help' to give an overview of the main targets. Running make help will search for text which starts with ## and show what that target does. 1.PHONY: help 2help: ## Print the help message. 3 @awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.?## "} /^[0-9a-zA-Z._-]+:.?## / {printf "\033[36m%s\033[0m : %s\n", $$1, $$2}' …

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If you have graph-easy (often in the package perl-graph-easy or similar), you can make a graph from the makefile with make2graph (the package is often called makefile2graph). Start with the command to 'make all targets' (-B), and 'do a dummy run' (-n) with debug into (-d): 1make -Bnd 2make -Bnd | make2graph 3make -Bnd …

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Using the basic example, you can make a complete backup of all backup files. This file will depend upon everything inside the $(storage_directory). Unlike bash, you can't just say storage_directory/: the pattern must be stated as a 'wildcard'. 1$(storage_directory)/backup.tgz: $(wildcard $(storage_directory)/.md) 2 …

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The make system wants to know: What file you want to make, Which other files it depends on, and How to build the file. Start with a basic test-area. 1mkdir make_test ; cd $_ 2printf "%s:\n" README.md > Makefile 3printf "\t%s\n" 'echo "Basic makefile example." > $@' >> Makefile 4make NB: Always tell make how to build …

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