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# Make

For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Make-3.80 in Chapter 6.

## Official Download Location

Make (3.80):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/

## Contents of Make

(Last checked against version 3.80.)

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

Installed program: make

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## Short description

make automatically determines which pieces of a large package need to be recompiled, and then issues the relevant commands.

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## Make Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 3.79.1.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld
Coreutils: basename, cat, chgrp, chmod, echo, expr, hostname,
install, ls, mv, rm, sleep, tr, uname
Diffutils: cmp
Gawk: gawk
GCC: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp, gcc
Glibc: getconf
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
M4: m4
Make: make
Sed: sed
Texinfo: install-info, makeinfo

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