Hardened Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20080603

Chapter 6. Installing Basic System Software

6.28. Make-3.81

The Make package contains a program for compiling packages.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs/wiki/make

6.28.1. Installation of Make

Prepare Make for compilation: 

./configure --prefix=/usr

Compile the package: 

make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Install the package: 

make install

6.28.2. Contents of Make

Installed program: make

Short Descriptions

make

Automatically determines which pieces of a package need to be (re)compiled and then issues the relevant commands