Meeting 2001-01-16 - Making it -- For Programmers and Other People

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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. 


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you can participate in the process of making formal decisions, including vot-
ing for officers.

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Our meeting place, THIS TUESDAY at 7 PM is:

Dunbar Hall, room 4202, on the campus of Western Michigan University.

Maps and directions can be found at
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All are welcome.

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