6.38. Installing Make-3.79.1

6.38.1. Installation of Make

Install Make by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

6.38.2. Contents

The Make package contains the make program.

6.38.3. Description

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

6.38.4. Dependencies

Make-3.79.1 needs the following to be installed:

sh from the bash package

as from the binutils package
ld from the binutils package

cmp from the diffutils package

chgrp from the fileutils package
chmod from the fileutils package
cp from the fileutils package
ls from the fileutils package
mv from the fileutils package
rm from the fileutils package

cc from the gcc package
egrep from the grep package

grep from the grep package

make from the make package

sed from the sed package

basename from the sh-utils package
expr from the sh-utils package
sleep from the sh-utils package
uname from the sh-utils package

cat from the textutils package
tr from the textutils package