# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line # up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' # on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must # make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also # customary to leave one space after the ':'. |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| make: make (GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs) make: make: This is the GNU implementation of make, which was written by Richard make: Stallman and Roland McGrath. The purpose of the make utility is to make: determine automatically which pieces of a large program need to be make: recompiled, and issue the commands to recompile them. make: make: This is needed to compile just about any major C program, including make: the Linux kernel. make: make: