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# Installing Make-3.80

    Estimated build time:           0.2 SBU
    Estimated required disk space:  8.8 MB

## 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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## 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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## Installation of Make

Prepare Make to be compiled:

    ./configure --prefix=/tools

Compile the program:

    make

This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the following command will do so:

    make check

Then install it and its documentation:

    make install

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