Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool: make process

| ## C.6 make The final tool to be run is `make`. Like `configure`, it is designed to execute on the build host. `make` will use the rules in the generated ``Makefile'` to compile the project sources with the aid of various other scripts generated earlier on.
    user input files   other input      processes          output files
    ================   ===========      =========          ============

                                       .--------,
                       Makefile ------>|        |
                       config.h ------>|  make  |
    {project sources} ---------------->|        |--------> {project targets}
                                     .-+        +--,
                                     | `--------'  |
                                     |   libtool   |
                                     |   missing   |
                                     |  install-sh |
                                     |mkinstalldirs|
                                     `-------------'

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