How to Run make
See the following documentation for more discussion.
Usually, makefiles are written so that if you run
However, you might want to update only some of the files; you might want to
use a different compiler or different compiler options; you might want just to
find out which files are out of date without changing them. By giving arguments
when you run
The exit status of
The exit status is zero if make is successful.
The exit status is two if make encounters any errors. It will print messages describing the particular
errors.
The exit status is one if you use the ‘-q’ flag and make determines that some target is not already up to date.