# PMake — A Tutorial

### Adam de Boor

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Table of Contents
1 Introduction
2 The Basics of PMake
  2.1. Dependency Lines
  2.2. Shell Commands
  2.3. Variables
    2.3.1. Local Variables
    2.3.2. Command-line Variables
    2.3.3. Global Variables
    2.3.4. Environment Variables
  2.4. Comments
  2.5. Parallelism
  2.6. Writing and Debugging a Makefile
  2.7. Invoking PMake
  2.8. Summary
3 Short-cuts and Other Nice Things
  3.1. Transformation Rules
  3.2. Including Other Makefiles
  3.3. Saving Commands
  3.4. Target Attributes
  3.5. Special Targets
  3.6. Modifying Variable Expansion
  3.7. More Exercises
4 PMake for Gods
  4.1. Search Paths
  4.2. Archives and Libraries
  4.3. On the Condition...
  4.4. A Shell is a Shell is a Shell
  4.5. Compatibility
  4.6. DEFCON 3 – Variable Expansion
  4.7. DEFCON 2 – The Number of the Beast
  4.8. DEFCON 1 – Imitation is the Not the Highest Form of Flattery
  4.9. The Way Things Work
5 Answers to Exercises
Glossary of Jargon

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