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1 <sect1 id="ch-system-make" xreflabel="Make">
2 <title>Installing Make-&make-version;</title>
3 <?dbhtml filename="make.html" dir="chapter06"?>
5 <para>The Make package contains a program for compiling large packages.</para>
7 <screen>&buildtime; &make-time;
8 &diskspace; &make-compsize;</screen>
10 &aa-make-down;
11 &aa-make-dep;
13 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
15 <sect2>
16 <title>Installation of Make</title>
18 <para>Prepare Make for compilation:</para>
20 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
22 <para>Compile the package:</para>
24 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
26 <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
27 checks to ensure it built correctly.  Should you choose to run it, the 
28 following command will do so:</para>
30 <screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
32 <para>And install the package:</para>
34 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
36 </sect2>
38 &aa-make-shortdesc;
39 &aa-make-desc;
41 </sect1>