Installing Make-3.79.1

Estimated build time:           0.22 SBU
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

Last checked against version 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.

Make Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 3.79.1.

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
Gawk: gawk
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: basename, echo, expr, hostname, sleep, uname
Texinfo: install-info, makeinfo
Textutils: cat, tr