makefile extension

Question

I\'m writing a C program using gcc in cygwin. My question is, how do you create a makefile? I mean, what file-extension does it have? I know how to write simple rules, but I can

Answer 1

In the few places where I've seen extensions used on makefile names they have generally been either .make or .gmk, and even then those extensions are usually reserved for makefile fragments that are included by master files given one of the default names.