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I bought what seemed to be overstock or maybe it was just being remaindered in a 50%-off Uni Bookshop sale about 20 years ago. It's a tiny (80 page) little book called "Managing Projects with make" by Steve Talbot and printed by O'Reilly and Associates.

Most of what I know about 'make' I learned from this book.

I got it from working on lots of C for almost thirty years, and also by putting together a from-scratch embedded GNU/Linux distro some decade ago, and more recently doing distro work also.

As far as knowing GNU Make, I recommend just reading the manual from beginning to end, perhaps twice.

https://nostarch.com/gnumake

That is not, contrary to what the name might imply, the official GNU Make manual. That one can be read here, for free: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/

I don't take the name as implying that.

Anyway, it is excellent and has some good advice and tips.

Unlike the official manual which is more a reference.