- all
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Do everything
- check
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Perform some self test after building the program
- clean
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Delete all files created by make
- distclean
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Delete more files than clean, could delete the Makefile itself
- dist
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Create a distribution package, a compressed tarball by example
- install
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Install target created by make,need to be run as root to install in system directories
- uninstall
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Remove files installed by make