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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nexus.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!quagga.ru.ac.za!ucthpx!wabe.csir.co.za!zibbi!jtonsing From: jtonsing@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (Johann Tonsing) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: gmake for FreeBSD Date: 21 Jun 1995 17:10:54 GMT Organization: CSIR - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3s9jqu$3rr@wabe.csir.co.za> References: <3r5c1g$cdp@overload.lbl.gov> <Pine.SOL.3.91.950618163957.1054A-100000@knobel.gun.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Andreas Klemm (andreas@knobel.gun.de) wrote: : On 7 Jun 1995 jin@gracie.lbl.gov wrote: : > A simple question: Where can I get a gmake (GNU make) for FreeBSD? : > : > Thanks for taking your time. : Very simple. Get the source from a site, that mirrors the GNU : server, i.e.: ftp.freebsd.org. : Extract the archive, tar xvzf make-....tgz : Run configure: configure --prefix=/usr/local : Type make: make : That should work... ... except if you do not already have gmake installed. I had to type sh ./build.sh or something like that a while ago when I needed gmake. Perhaps the newest one does not need this though. Someone said that the -current make is less fussy - perhaps one does not need gmake if one uses that. Take care Johann -- jtonsing@mikom.csir.co.za, Fax: Int+27 12 841-4570 S-mail: 173 Duxbury Rd, Hillcrest, 0083 Pretoria, South Africa.