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 5 Writing Recipes in Rules
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 The recipe of a rule consists of one or more shell command lines to be
 executed, one at a time, in the order they appear.  Typically, the
 result of executing these commands is that the target of the rule is
 brought up to date.
 
    Users use many different shell programs, but recipes in makefiles are
 always interpreted by `/bin/sh' unless the makefile specifies
 otherwise.   Recipe Execution Execution.

 
* Recipe Syntax               Recipe syntax features and pitfalls.
* Echoing                     How to control when recipes are echoed.
* Execution                   How recipes are executed.
* Parallel                    How recipes can be executed in parallel.
* Errors                      What happens after a recipe execution error.
* Interrupts                  What happens when a recipe is interrupted.
* Recursion                   Invoking `make' from makefiles.
* Canned Recipes              Defining canned recipes.
* Empty Recipes               Defining useful, do-nothing recipes.

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