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Here is a summary of the features of GNU make , for comparison with and credit to other versions of make . We consider the features of make in 4.2 BSD systems as a baseline. If you are concerned with writing portable makefiles, you should use only the features of make not listed here or in section Incompatibilities and Missing Features . See section Searching Directories for Dependencies . This feature exists in System V make , but is undocumented.