How to find the man page for makefiles?

Question

I'm looking for the man pages of the makefile , and not the man pages of the make program.

The latter, I can find and read its man pages easily by running man make . But for the former, I cannot find any man pages on how to actually write a makefile. I've run apropos make on my Linux machine (Ubuntu) and I didn't find any reference to a man page for the actual makefiles.

Answer 1

Have you seen this site ? It is extremely comprehensive, and the majority of the chapters are concerned with makefiles (rules, variables, functions, conventions, etc.) as opposed to make itself.

Answer 2

Try apt install make-doc

Followed by info make