A sample makefile for a paper in LaTeX.

Makefile

TEX = pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode
BIB = bibtex
GS = gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite 

COVER = cover
PAPER = paper_main
SUPP = paper_supp
BIBFILE = temp.bib
BUNDLE = paper_bundle.pdf

all: $(COVER).pdf $(PAPER).pdf $(SUPP).pdf 
	$(GS) -sOutputFile=$(BUNDLE) $(COVER).pdf $(PAPER).pdf $(SUPP).pdf 

view: $(BUNDLE)
	open $(BUNDLE)

spell::
	ispell *.tex

clean::
	rm -fv *.aux *.log *.bbl *.blg *.toc *.out *.lot *.lof $(PAPER).pdf $(SUPP).pdf $(BUNDLE)

$(PAPER).pdf: $(PAPER).tex $(PAPER).bbl 
	$(TEX) $(PAPER) 
	$(TEX) $(PAPER)

$(PAPER).bbl: $(PAPER).tex $(BIBFILE)
	$(TEX) $(PAPER)
	$(BIB) $(PAPER)

$(SUPP).pdf: $(SUPP).tex $(SUPP).bbl 
	$(TEX) $(SUPP) 
	$(TEX) $(SUPP)

$(SUPP).bbl: $(SUPP).tex $(BIBFILE)
	$(TEX) $(SUPP)
	$(BIB) $(SUPP)