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Rosmake basically calls make recursively. This answer talks about the difference between rosmake and make: http://answers.ros.org/question/10614/rosmake-vs-make

In rosbuild the Makefile invokes CMake, and uses rospack to get the package information from the manifest.xml files.

And you should read about the manifest.xml on the wiki

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