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The UNIX make utility is a tool for organizing and facilitating the update of executables or other files which are built from one or more constituent files. Although make can be used in a wide variety of applications, in this chapter we concentrate on its use in the area of software development. We describe how to define relationships between source, object, library and executable files for use by make, and how to invoke make in its simplest and slightly more complex forms.