由于编译程序是在开发过程中需要无数次重复做的事情，因此我们自然就会希望使用一个自动化的编译系统，把自己从手工编译程序的繁杂事务中解放出来。

Because compiling is something you'll do thousands of times during development, you naturally want to use an automated build system to free you from doing it by hand.

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make的主要特性之一就是依赖性管理：只有在程序源码发生更新必须要重新编译程序时，make才会真正重新编译程序。

One of make's key features is dependency management: make attempts to rebuild only what it has to when a program is updated.

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So really, once we start writing more interesting programs, you would have to type out long annoying commands like that to just compile more sophisticated programs.

实际上，一旦我们开始写一些更复杂的程序时，你们可能要键入那样一些长的，讨厌的命令,来编译跟高级的程序。

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f2c So I'm going to go ahead and run make on f2c, which is the name I gave to this particular program.

所以我将继续来编译，这是我给这个程序取的名字。

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> That lets the compiler know that you want to use some actual compiled code from that library.

>，那是告诉编译器我们想要在程序库中,使用一些当前的编译后的代码。

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