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When the scale of your system grows, two things will likely happen.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The Make utility will check the timestamps to determine whether targets are older than any of the prerequisites.

  2. 2.

    Another way to process the return value is to use the $? variable, which will be demonstrated in later sections.

  3. 3.

    Nested includes are also covered in this list.

  4. 4.

    Mutual or cyclic dependency could happen under complex circumstances. For example, both module A and module B could reference each other's configuration header files config_A.h and config_B.h, while these configuration header files are supposed to be generated dynamically during the build process. Due to their complexity, mutual dependency and cyclic dependency are usually solved on an ad hoc basis, and they will not be discussed in this book.

  5. 5.

    The renowned Android OS is also based on the Linux kernel.

  6. 6.

    Here I take the liberty of assuming that PC is the standard service rifle for embedded developers. Apple fans, feel free to replace it with iMAC.  :-)

  7. 7.

    Of course, you can always use JTAG ICE. But ICE is an expensive piece of equipment, and it might be overkill if all you need is to load something into memory and run it.

  8. 8.

    As you can imagine, I am no expert on emacs.

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Gu, C. (2016). Building and Deployment. In: Building Embedded Systems. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1919-5_8

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