lfs-book/chapter06/make.xml

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<sect1 id="ch-system-make" xreflabel="Make">
<title>Make-&make-version;</title>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-make"><primary sortas="a-Make">Make</primary></indexterm>

<para>The Make package contains a program for compiling large packages.</para>

<screen>&buildtime; 0.2 SBU
&diskspace; 8.8 MB</screen>

<para>Make installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Sed.</para>



<sect2>
<title>Installation of Make</title>

<para>Prepare Make for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>

<para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

<para>To test the results, issue:
<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>

<para>Now install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

</sect2>


<sect2 id="contents-make"><title>Contents of Make</title>

<para><emphasis>Installed program</emphasis>: make</para>

</sect2>


<sect2><title>Short description</title>

<indexterm zone="ch-system-make make"><primary sortas="b-make">make</primary></indexterm>
<para id="make"><command>make</command> automatically determines which pieces of a
large package need to be recompiled, and then issues the relevant commands.</para>

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