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diff --git a/devel/gmake/DESCR b/devel/gmake/DESCR index 240bf785867..e94afa8ecc3 100644 --- a/devel/gmake/DESCR +++ b/devel/gmake/DESCR @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ -This directory contains the release of GNU Make. -All bugs reported for previous test releases have been fixed. -Some bugs surely remain. +Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and +other non-source files of a program from the program's source files. + +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. + +This is the GNU version of make. |