lfs-book/chapter06/make.xml

<sect1 id="ch-system-make" xreflabel="Make">
<title>Installing Make-&make-version;</title>
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<para>The Make package contains a program for compiling large packages.</para>

<screen>&buildtime; &make-time;
&diskspace; &make-compsize;</screen>

&aa-make-down;
&aa-make-dep;

<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>

<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 have the results tested, issue:
<userinput>make HOME=/root check</userinput>. The HOME environment variable
needs to be set to prevent one of the tests from failing.</para>

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

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

</sect2>

&aa-make-shortdesc;
&aa-make-desc;

</sect1>