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6 <sect1 id="ch-system-make" xreflabel="Make">
7 <title>Make-&make-version;</title>
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10 <indexterm zone="ch-system-make"><primary sortas="a-Make">Make</primary></indexterm>
12 <para>The Make package contains a program for compiling large packages.</para>
14 <screen>&buildtime; 0.2 SBU
15 &diskspace; 8.8 MB</screen>
17 <para>Make installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
18 GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Sed.</para>
22 <sect2>
23 <title>Installation of Make</title>
25 <para>Prepare Make for compilation:</para>
27 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
29 <para>Compile the package:</para>
31 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
33 <para>To test the results, issue:
34 <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
36 <para>Now install the package:</para>
38 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
40 </sect2>
43 <sect2 id="contents-make"><title>Contents of Make</title>
45 <para><emphasis>Installed program</emphasis>: make</para>
47 </sect2>
50 <sect2><title>Short description</title>
52 <indexterm zone="ch-system-make make"><primary sortas="b-make">make</primary></indexterm>
53 <para id="make"><command>make</command> automatically determines which pieces of a
54 large package need to be recompiled, and then issues the relevant commands.</para>
56 </sect2>
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