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Summary: Didn't add to my knowledge of Make.
Review: Before reading this book, I had already had some experience with 'make' utilities through my experiences with the OpenVMS Module Management System (MMS) facility (Compaq's version of make). At our site, We use MMS and Make not only for product compilation, but also for product versioning and installation as well. Although this book contains more material then the UNIX man pages, this small book (<125 pages) really didn't expand my knowledge of make (I found the OpenVMS MMS user documentation more enlightening, although still lacking). This book tries to be all things to all people, and ends up being a few things to some. For the next edition, the authors should consider expanding the content to include more real-world examples, shortcuts and tricks. The book should also place more emphasis on using the 'makedepend' utility as well as maintaining products with multiple versioned subsystems.
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Summary: Didn't add to my knowledge of Make.
Review: Before reading this book, I had already had some experience with 'make' utilities through my experiences with the OpenVMS Module Management System (MMS) facility (Compaq's version of make). At our site, We use MMS and Make not only for product compilation, but also for product versioning and installation as well. Although this book contains more material then the UNIX man pages, this small book (<125 pages) really didn't expand my knowledge of make (I found the OpenVMS MMS user documentation more enlightening, although still lacking). This book tries to be all things to all people, and ends up being a few things to some. For the next edition, the authors should consider expanding the content to include more real-world examples, shortcuts and tricks. The book should also place more emphasis on using the 'makedepend' utility as well as maintaining products with multiple versioned subsystems.
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Summary: Make
Review: Excellent book for learning the syntax of make, make's variable conventions, and environmental variable settings. The book gives a good base for understanding the makefile format and flow. Highly recommended for those who don't understand the Makefile approach and need an understanding of exsisting Makefiles.
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Summary: The book explain make clearly
Review: Followed comments from previous reviewers, I look make infomation at gnu site, but I cannot understand make. After I take a look at this book, in half day I understand almost all the make tricks. This book explain make clearly. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Useful yet disapointing
Review: I found managing projects with make to be below the usual very high quality of O'Reilly books. That is to say if it was by some other publisher I would be pleased with it, but O'Reilly has so consistently produced very high quality technical books that I was disappointed by the lack of depth. I still feel reasonably safe in recommending it as a good book to learn how to use make, but that's all it is. It would be nice to include more information about how use it for applications beyond simply compiling c, assembly, and lib's into applications.
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Summary: You may even find this book helpful in Windows
Review: I recently had to work on our project's make file. The first look at it made me nervous. Fortunately I found this book. This book is a great introduction to unix' power tool 'make'. The authors clearly had enough experience to tell us what,how and whys. The first chapter generates excitement to continue on to the next ones. Chapters two and three must be read with lots of patience. Remember, 'make' is a complex tool used for complex projects. Its not an easy go.Troubleshooting section listed some common problems, which, by the way, are really helpful. The project management is good too. The only complaint I have with this book is it is a little pricey.For thirty bucks, I expect more bang. The authors could have updated the book with new breed of make tools like Apache's 'ant'. An example of building a project could have really helped. The man pages listed for 'make' on my unix system didnt take me far enough to grasp this tool. I highly recommend it to beginners.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: I recently had to work on our project's make file. The first look at it made me nervous. Fortunately I found this book. This book is a great introduction to unix' power tool 'make'. The authors clearly had enough experience to tell us what,how and whys. The first chapter generates excitement to continue on to the next ones. Chapters two and three must be read with lots of patience. Remember, 'make' is a complex tool used for complex projects. Its not an easy go.Troubleshooting section listed some common problems, which, by the way, are really helpful. The project management is good too. The only complaint I have with this book is it is a little pricey.For thirty bucks, I expect more bang. The authors could have updated the book with new breed of make tools like Apache's 'ant'. An example of building a project could have really helped. The man pages listed for 'make' on my unix system didnt take me far enough to grasp this tool. I highly recommend it to beginners.
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Summary: You're better off reading the GNU make documentation
Review: I'm an ardent consumer of O'Reilly books, but I was quite disappointed with the quality of their make book. I read it about 5 years ago with a rudimentary understanding of make, yet it did little to further explain things I already knew. I recently read the GNU make documentation and clarified many fuzzy make concepts. I recommend it over the ORA make book. Besides, GNU make is cooler than vanilla make. 8-)
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Summary: You're better off reading the GNU make documentation
Review: I'm an ardent consumer of O'Reilly books, but I was quite disappointed with the quality of their make book. I read it about 5 years ago with a rudimentary understanding of make, yet it did little to further explain things I already knew. I recently read the GNU make documentation and clarified many fuzzy make concepts. I recommend it over the ORA make book. Besides, GNU make is cooler than vanilla make. 8-)
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Summary: Index very very shallow
Review: Maybe this is a good book, but you wouldn't be able to tell that by the index. Something as basic as using conditionals with make(if .. then) should be indexed for easy referance. I've had to root through the book for various situations like this because the index was so sparse. I have had much more luck using the GNUmake online manuals which are free.
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