How to write Makefiles

• SEP's make rules are stored in /usr/local/share/make. You find documentation at SEP's reproducible research page.
• Dependency to another directory

       Fig/desired.v: 
                 cd sourceDir; ${MAKE} $@ 
       

  This rule will always go to the other file and make the file. If the file is up-to-date in the source directory, we only inflicted the overhead of an additional make call. There might be more sophisticated solutions using the VPATH variable, but I have not tried that.
• Tricks to remember You can always make a recursive call.
  You can always write a shell script as rule body.
  
• Tex to Make describes how SEP connects a button in a tex document to a make command (or any other shell command).