5.22. Installing Make-3.80

Estimated build time:           0.2 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  8.8 MB

5.22.1. Contents of Make

Make determines, automatically, which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled and issues the commands to recompile them.

Installed program: make

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5.22.3. Make Installation Dependencies

Make depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Sed.

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5.22.5. Installation of Make

Prepare Make for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/tools

Compile the program:

make 

This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the following command will do so:

make check

Then install it and its documentation:

make install