GNU Make

$@

    The file name of the target of the rule. 

$%

    The target member name, when the target is an archive member. See Archives.

$<

    The name of the first prerequisite. 

 $^

    The names of all the prerequisites, with spaces between them. For prerequisites which are archive members, only the named member is used

 

The follwing important make targets:

all                             distdir                     install 

install-strip                   install-data              install-exec

uninstall                       install-dvi                install-html

install-info                    install-ps                 install-pdf

installdirs                     check                      installcheck

mostlyclean                     clean                      distclean

maintainer-clean                 dvi                          pdf

ps                               info                        html

tags                             ctags                      dist

dist-bzip2                      dist-gzip                  dist-lzma

dist-shar                       dist-zip                   dist-tar2