Plus simple mais utile

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# What you may configure
# Target : is your primary document name.
# SecDir : points to location of included TeX files.
# FigDir : points to location of your figures (ps or eps files)
# BibDir : points to location of your .bib files (BibTeX bibliography entries)
# BstDir : points to location of your .bst files (bibliography style)
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# SecFiles : all include tex
# FigFiles : lists actual names of figure files
# BibFiles : lists actual names of .bib files referenced in your
# BstFiles : lists actual name of .bst file referenced in your
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Target = documentnameyouwant
SecDir = ./
FigDir = ./figures/png/
StyDir = ./
BibDir = ./
BstDir = ./
SecFiles = $(wildcard ${SecDir}/*.tex)
FigFiles = $(wildcard ${FigDir}/*.png)
StyFiles = $(wildcard ${StyDir}/*.sty)
BibFiles = $(wilcard ${BibDir}/*.bib)
BstFiles =$(wildcard ${BstDir}/*.bst)

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LaTeX = pdflatex # or regular latex, if you prefer
BibTeX = bibtex
PDFtoPS = Acroread -toPostScript
Paper = Acroread
Viewer = gs

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${Target}.ps: ${Target}.pdf
${PDFtoPS} ${Target}.pdf

${Target}.pdf: ${Target}.bbl
${LaTeX} ${Target}
${LaTeX} ${Target}

${Target}.bbl: ${BibFiles} ${SecFiles} ${FigFiles} ${StyFiles} ${Target}.tex
${LaTeX} ${Target}
${BibTeX} ${Target}

clean:
-rm *.aux *.bbl *.blg *.pdf *.log

cleanps:
-rm ${Target}.ps

force:
make clean
${LaTeX} ${Target}
${BibTeX} ${Target}
${LaTeX} ${Target}
${LaTeX} ${Target}
${PDFtoPS} ${Target}.pdf

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# Viewing options
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show:
-${Paper} ${Target}.pdf &
view:
-${Viewer} ${Target}.ps &

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# Archive file options
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archive: # Create tar archive with all files in current directory.
make
make clean
-tar -cvzf ${Target}.tgz .

list: # List files in tar archive.
tar -tvzf ${Target}.tgz

Au cas ou, un interessé par quelque chose de simple.
Note: Je compile pour du pdf mais la modification vers ps principal est simple