User talk:Mschuldt

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  Getting help   Made a mistake?   Goodies, tips and tricks Thanks, DavidCary (discuss • contribs) 17:49, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you for editing make to fill in the "obviously missing" steps -- the steps that convert the ".cpp" files to ".o" files. Forgive me for reverting your edit -- the "missing" steps are automatically filled in by "make", so there is no need to explicitly and manually fill them in.

How can we fix up the make Wikibook to make it more clear that programmers can save time by leaving out such steps, and letting "make" do the work for them? The talk page talk: make has a little more discussion of how "make" automatically fills in these "missing steps". I hope someone like you will put a similar but less confusing description on the main make page. --DavidCary (discuss • contribs) 17:49, 1 August 2013 (UTC)