Basic Tutorial? Makefiles in Eclipse CDT
This could be of some help for you:
www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~eclipse/7-EclipseCDT.pdf
Resources for learning GNUMake?
The definitive guide is http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
There is an o'reilly book "Managing Projects with GNU Make" which has more explanation.
You can also uses the earlier editions, they don't cover GnuMake specifically but are a lot thinner.
Make is a dirty secret among developers - none of us understand it, we just borrow a make script from somebody else and change it. I imagine only one script was ever written from scratch (probably by the creator of the tool).
When you need to do more than the simple example most people either switch to a more modern build system like Ant or roll their own in Perl/Python/etc.
Linux Makefile structure and documentation
The best tutorial that I have found for makefiles so far has been this one. One of your other options is to learn autotools and let them produce your makefiles for you, though a little outdated this is the tutorial that I found best to learn from.
Creating/improving a makefile
Here is a generic Makefile I created for C, it can be easily adapted to C++:
Generic Makefile for Linux
and here is a great tutorial on how to write a makefile.
Related Topics
Copy File Permissions, But Not Files
Finding The Max and Min Values and Printing The Line from a File
On-The-Fly Output Redirection, Seeing The File Redirection Output While The Program Is Still Running
Yocto Bitbake Script Not Displaying Echo Statement
Can 'Find' or Any Other Tool Search for Files Breadth-First
Can Multiple .Gz Files Be Combined Such That They Extract into a Single File
In a Bash Script, What Would $'\0' Evaluate to and Why
Checking for Null String in Bash
Crontab - Simple Echo Not Running
Bash Arrays and Negative Subscripts, Yes or No
Bash Loop Through Directory Including Hidden File
Kafka Console Consumer with Kerberos Authentication
How to Provide Extend-On-Write Functionality for Memory Mapped Files in Linux
Short Command to Find Total Size of Files Matching a Wild Card
How to Answer Yes in Bash Script
How to Connect to Amazon Linux Instance Using Remote Desktop from Windows 7