The GNU Make Book

http://www.amazon.com/GNU-Make-Book-John-Graham-Cumming/dp/1593276494/

by jgrahamc • 11 years ago

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Sun2Sun• 11 years ago

Memories... i used make a lot back in the "Desktop days"

Dewie35• 11 years ago

From the top review:

The GNU Make Book is intended for people who already have an understanding of GNU Make, what it is, and the basics of how and why someone would use it.

So a whole book about the Make tool, and yet it still requires prior understanding of Make?

Avshalom• 11 years ago

Its purpose is deeper understanding not advocacy

Dewie35• 11 years ago

I didn't mean that it should advocate, as in try to sell itself. I mean that a book should probably be enough to go from zero to hero (?). Which means that you can just use that book to learn about the tool without first doing any background legwork, like in the scenario that I described in another comment.

oskarth• 11 years ago

Why would you buy a book on something like GNU Make if you didn't already know what it is and how to (kind of) use it?

delinka2• 11 years ago

So that I can learn it. Everyone's gotta start somewhere. Not everyone learns the same way. Some people want a beginning book on a topic.

Dewie35• 11 years ago

- Hey, I read that I need to learn this "Make" thing in order to <do something else>; you've got any resources on that, man?

- Yeah sure. Just grab that book over there (points).

belorn• 11 years ago

I don't normally complain about what articles get up voted, but this is like 3rd time I see this book on the front page under the time of a month.

Doing a HN search, (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22gnu%20make%22&sort=byDate&p...), it the pattern from jgrahamc look like advertisement when first he submit www, then posting without www a month later, then add a ? the next month.

tbirdz2• 11 years ago

I disagree. Each of jgrahamc's articles he posted was useful and interesting in its own right, and would well qualify as a quality hacker news post. And if he wants to plug his book on his own blog, I'm OK with that.

However, I do think just posting the Amazon link to the book page on here is little more questionable, and might border on just blatant advertising (Unless jgrahamc has moreto add than just "Buy my book"?).

talideon• 11 years ago

The ebook is a lot cheaper on the No Starch Press site, and DRM free, so if you're looking the ebook, buy it directly from them.

tbirdz2• 11 years ago

Just wondering: How does this compare with the GNU Make users manual? Does it cover roughly the same ground or is it more or less deeper?

pwaring• 11 years ago

I've read the manual and I'm currently reviewing the book - the book is a lot more in-depth than the user manual and starts further in (chapter 1 drops you right in with environment variables, there's no introduction to make, what it does, GNU Make vs other build systems etc.).

The GNU Make Book

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