Makefiles specify instructions for how software programs should be compiled — it specifies all the dependencies and how the different files should be linked and compiled. It relies on a UNIX utility called make that checks the time a file was last modified and what exactly needs to be recompiled.
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Flags:
-jnwill parallelise building executables.nis a value that specifies how many build steps should be executed concurrently. Common values forninclude 4 or 8, i.e.,make -j8.