Tool to control the generation of non-source files from sources

<rendered-html><p>Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program’s source files.</p> <p>Make gets its knowledge of how to build your program from a file called the makefile, which lists each of the non-source files and how to compute it from other files. When you write a program, you should write a makefile for it, so that it is possible to use Make to build and install the program.</p> </rendered-html>