Baffled by cc -o in Make manual

[Ray Foulkes]

Hello, like many reports I suppose I have this totally wrong but the very first example on page 4 of the make manual at

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.pdf  reads:

edit : main.o kbd.o command.o display.o \

    insert.o search.o files.o utils.o

        cc -o edit main.o kbd.o command.o display.o \

            insert.o search.o files.o utils.o

I am totally baffled as to what cc -o is doing there. Surely it should be ld?? and then the -o is for "output" i.e. create "edit" as an executable.

On the other hand it continues on through the other examples of using variables in subsequent pages so I am beginning to doubt myself.

I cannot understand how make knows to call ld if it is not explicit somewhere in the file.

Please ignore if I am just being stupid... If so, boy, have you got me baffled - and I have only got to page 4!

Regards, Ray Foulkes