Web Directory

» A Case For Make
   Fowler 1990 - Explains many old-make limitations and new-make (Nmake) features including procedure rules, accuracy mechanisms, viewpathing, and semaphores for blocking unwanted parallelism.
   http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/old/fowler90case.html

» An Automatic Make Facility
   Holyer and Pehlivan 2000 - Program uses no makefile. It records manually-issued compilation commands the first time round, then rebuilds programs using recorded command traces.
   http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.60.5968

» Ask Mr. Make
   Articles on makefile optimization, build management and acceleration, etc.
   http://www.electric-cloud.com/resources/mrmake.php

» Compare and Contrast Lucent Nmake and GNU Make
   Lucent FAQ - Summarizes the function and typical syntax of many make features, using a convenient table format.
   http://www.bell-labs.com/project/nmake/faq/gmake.html

» Distcc, A Fast Free Distributed Compiler
   Pool 2003 - This paper describes a distributed compiler for C/C++ programs, and provides a good discussion of key issues related to parallel, distributed software builds.
   http://distcc.samba.org/doc/lca2004/distcc-lca-2004.html

» Make - A Program For Maintaining Computer Programs
   Feldman 1979 - The original make paper, including makefile syntax, implicit rules, double colon targets, macros, VPATH macro, and the usual cleanup and install targets.
   http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.39.7058

» Make It - Generating and Maintaining Makefiles Automatically
   Schönherr and Wolff 1998 - A set of makefile dependency generator tools for working with files written in Knuth's Literate Programming style.
   http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.37.2173

» Makefile Setup for Java
   Geosoft - A GNU Make and shell script setup for Java. Features dependency scanning, class files, JAR archives, JNI interfaces, RMI stub and skeletons, and Javadoc.
   http://geosoft.no/javamake.html

» PGMAKE: A Portable Distributed Make System
   Lih and Zadok 1994 - Reports design issues and results of modifying GNU Make to do distributed makes using the Oakridge PVM Parallel Virtual Machine.
   http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.7432

» Parallel and Distributed Compilations in Loosely-Coupled Systems - A Case Study
   Baalbergen 1986 - Distributing machine specific compilation phases among machines with a distributed make program is about 3.5 times faster.
   http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.45.1398

» Recursive vs Non-recursive Makefile Architecture Speed Comparison
   Kolpackov 2004 - This document compares recursive and non-recursive build systems (GNU make -j N) for building 277 software files in 15 directories using various combinations of parallelism and hardware. Non-recursive builds are faster.
   http://kolpackov.net/projects/build/benchmark.xhtml

» Software Builds
   Codefast - Contains many articles on software build topics such as problem scope, stakeholder design viewpoints, directory structures, architecture models, makefile generator tools and software build methods.
   http://www.codefast.com/index.html

» The Fourth Generation Make
   Fowler 1985 - A new make tool with support for CPP, dependency generation, compiled makefiles, parallel execution, pathname parsing operators, and a powerful metalanguage for builtin rules.
   http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.25.6629