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Date : 16-Jan-2001
Presentation: Making it -- For Programmers and Other People
Presenter : Robert G. Brown
The "make" utility is a critical part of compiling any but the most
trivial programs on most systems today. Understanding how make is used
leads to a deeper understanding of how a lot of interesting things are
done in Linux. For example, make is commonly used for compiling only
what is needed when a change is made to some of many source code files.
We can also use make for any processing that is related to the update
times of specified files, such as collecting files into a common
database, or transaction processing. Again, the idea here is to reduce
the amount of work we do, limiting it to only what has changed, so that
we don't execute anything that has not changed.
Robert Brown is a founding member and current chairman of KLUG, and has
over 20 years experience in software development in numerous
environments, disciplines, and industries. An intermittent user of UNIX
systems for close to 10 years, Bob has developed software for the
distributed processing and client server models, and now has his first
experience in building and administering his own network. When he's not
bouncing between network nodes, or client, he can be seen cycling on the
Kal-Haven trail, hiking the countryside in search of nature photographs,
or helping to organize volunteer activities around computing, for KLUG
and the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).
We meet weekly, each Tuesday at 7:00 PM. Our meeting site is Room 4202
of Dunbar Hall on the campus of Western Michigan University.
For more information about the Kalamazoo Linux Users Group please visit
our website:
http://www.kalamazoolinux.org
For a complete list of upcoming meetings, go directly to:
http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/meetings/schedule.php3
For detailed directions to the KLUG meeting site, visit:
http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/meetings/maps.html
To find out how to obtain a copy of BS-Ware, visit
http://klug.kalamazoolinux.org/bsware/
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