The Ultimate Latex Makefile

This is a Latex Makefile that Does It All. It removes the burden of manually running latex and bibtex commands, compiling all the required dependencies automatically.

Get it here.

Usage

Drop the downloaded file in your LaTeX source directory, and run make. That should give you a nice DVI file.

The following options are available:

make pdf

Make PDF files out of all tex documents in the directory.

make ps

Make postscript files out of all tex documents in the directory.

make clean

Remove all the compilation results and intermediate files.

make foo.pdf

Make only foo.pdf, ignoring other source files in the directory.

If you prefer not to have the makefile complain about EPS file dependencies, comment the last lines out of the file. If you use the hyperref package, internal PDF hyperlinks will be automatically created.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

Changelog

2006-06-26

Improved cross-platform compatibility. Optional manual definition of dependencies. Patches submitted by Timo Kiravuo.

2006-03-07

Tex file dependencies are now computed on a per-file basis (instead of per-directory, as before). Please report, whether this works better or worse than the previous version.

2005-08-01

Handling of the included TeX files and dependencies is now more intelligent (a patch submitted by Rainer Jung)

2005-01-19

Initial public release

2004-01-21

Made the Makefile output somewhat less verbose

2004-01-25

Fixed a simple bug in Bibtex file dependency detection

2004-02-04

Added support for multiple Bibtex files