make vs shell

[mar11]

Hi,

i hope i am here in the right place!!


what is the difference between Make and shell?

thanks

[Banfa]

Make is a general utility used for controling the complation and linking of programs.

Shell is the command line interface of the computer.

[mar11]

makefile

dose the Make script have one commands or it can share the command of shell scripting too??

thanks

[Banfa]

What the make script can contain rather depends on whos make utility you are using.

[mar11]

is that mean that the makefile can contain any commands of any other scripting languages like shell and Perl??

[Banfa]

No it means what it says, what you put in a make is dependent on whos make utility you are using.

Most make utilities can call to the shell and run third party programs (like compilers for instance).