make (redirected from being made for)

make

To compile a program made up of several independent software modules. The make utility recompiles only those modules that have been updated since the last compilation. See makefile.

---

make

1. Bridge the contract to be played

2. Cards a player's turn to shuffle

---

make [′māk]

(electricity)

Closing of relay, key, or other contact.

---

(programming, tool)

Make - The Unix tool to automate the recompilation, linking etc. of programs, taking account of the interdependencies of modules and their modification times. Make reads instructions from a "makefile" which specifies a set of targets to be built, the files they depend on and the commands to execute in order to produce them. Most C systems come with a make. There is also one produce by GNU. ["Make - A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs", A.I. Feldman, TR No 57, Bell Labs Apr 1977].