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Hi,
We have an arm chip with linux installed on it.
Perl is installed by default but we want to install some Perl modules on it aswell. Problem is make is not installed on it and I've no idea how to install make.
There is a cross compiler that comes with the development board (gcc) that i assume we can use to compile our perl modules but how can i install the perl modules if make is not installed. as in i cannot call make install to install the modules.
anyone got any good links how i can install make? (maybe compile/install it)
Have googled but nothing has come up solid.
Or am i missing something here?
Can i use gcc instead of make?
Seems most programs (minicom etc...) require make to install it....
Thanks for the reply.
Actually got a little further - but now seems i have a problem with gcc.
I cross compiled make on another pc and copied the entire folder over (Wasn't sure if make depends on anything).
But now if i try to compile minicom on the arm board, i do in minicom dir
./configure
and i get an error saying C compiler cannot create executables.
I think my gcc environment needs tuning (i.e. paths to lib files etc set in environment variables) as i cannot even compile a simple C hello world program as it cant find the stdio.h header files.
Any ideas what env variables need to be set for gcc??
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