Definition of "makefiles" [makefiles]

• Plural form of makefile. (noun)

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• "I am sure the Open Babel autotools build system could be optimized (I never tried), but when you add in the additional benefits mentioned above, support for multiple targets such as makefiles, XCode, MSVC, Eclipse etc, one shared language / syntax for all build files and an increasingly polished competitor to autotools, I honestly think it is a sensible choice for projects to move to CMake."
• "Understand commonUnix-centric ways of doing things such as makefiles, locations and roles ofsystem directories, etc."
• "Manual hacking of makefiles is not that much fun…."