Installing Make-3.79.1

Estimated build time:           1 minute
Estimated required disk space:  6 MB

Installation of Make

Install Make by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install &&
chgrp root /usr/bin/make &&
chmod 755 /usr/bin/make

Command explanations

By default /usr/bin/make is installed setgid kmem. This is needed on some systems so it can check the load average by using /dev/kmem. However, on Linux systems, setgid kmem is not needed, so we remove this from our make binary. This also fixes problems with the make ignoring certain variables like LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Contents of make-3.79.1

Descriptions

make

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

Dependencies

Make-3.79.1 needs the following to be installed:


autoconf: autoconf, autoheader
automake: aclocal, automake
bash: sh
binutils: as, ld
diffutils: cmp
fileutils: chgrp, chmod, install, ls, mv, rm
gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
glibc: getconf
grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
m4: m4
make: make
mawk: mawk
sed: sed
sh-utils: basename, echo, expr, hostname, sleep, uname
texinfo: install-info, makeinfo
textutils: cat, tr