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		syncsynchalt on Aug 18, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Afraid of Makefiles? Don't be Thanks... I suspected I was just redefining a built-in pattern rule, but I put it there anyway just so I can remember whether it's LDFLAGS (linker) vs LFLAGS (lexer). Plus I was thinking maybe less magic for someone trying to make sense of it. Is there no command needed for name_of_bin to be linked? Does it automatically figure it out based on *.o dependencies?

spc476 on Aug 18, 2017 [–]

Yes it does. In fact, with GNU make, if you have a single file, hello.c, you can type "make hello" without a makefile and it will just work.

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