Installing Make
We have seen problems with Version 3.81 of GNU make on Linux (though
not on a Mac). Here are instructions for installing Version 3.80 of
GNU make on linux that worked for us. (Note: We have both 32-bit and
64-bit OS machines on your filesystem, and after we did the following
on a 32-bit machine, we could use make 3.80 on either 32-bit or 64-bit
machines.)
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Change to a directory under which you will put make 3.80:
mkdir Make
cd Make
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Download GNU make version 3.80 from:
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/make/make-3.80.tar.gz
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Extract/build/install:
tar xfz make-3.80.tar.gz
cd make-3.80
./configure
make
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Arrange that the new make 3.80 is your default make. For example, if
~/bin at (or sufficiently near) the front of your
PATH
and DIR
is the directory in which you downloaded
make-3.80.tar.gz
as above, you can do this:
ln -s DIR/Make/make-3.80/make make
rehash
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Test that you have installed make 3.80 as your default make. The
following should print "
GNU Make 3.80
".
make --version
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