gmake install
Hi,
I just downloaded gmake-3.80p0.tqz it's a prerequisite fro a unixODBC install I'm attempting at the moment. I then proceeded to do the usual gunzip the "tqz tar -xvf the " tar. Is there no need to install or copy over the resultant files? It's just usually I've found I have to do the old configure make make install install with these packages? Assume zero linux skills on my part :) Cheers, Ed |
From what information you have provided, I would say you should do "configure; make; make install", unless you have other instructions (like from the unixODBC readme or something).
Why didn't you install though gmake from the package management system ? What distribution are you on ? |
# 'yum install make' should do on RH EL 5.
You can't compile gmake without gmake (= make) anyway. .... |
Thanks lads
I'm on RH EL 5.0, is that not the Distribution. Not that au fait with Linux terminology ie. flavours etc. [root@moran /]# yum install make Loading "rhnplugin" plugin rhel-i386-server-5 100% |=========================| 1.4 kB 00:00 Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Package make - 1:3.81-3.el5.i386 is already installed. Nothing to do The thing with that "gmake-3.80p0.tqz" is that is didn't seem to create a folder called 'gmake-3.80p0' once I had unzipped and untarred the .tqz. I'll get exactly what it did and dump here to show you (now appended). When I search in tmp no 'gmake-3.80p0' dir has been created (this is what I'm used to see happening, and then I head in there and then run any resultant configure.sh, make,...etc. Is this some weirdo special type exception to the norm package? Thanks for your help. [root@moran tmp]# tar -xvf gmake-3.80p0.tar +CONTENTS +COMMENT +DESC bin/gmake info/make.info info/make.info-1 info/make.info-2 info/make.info-3 info/make.info-4 info/make.info-5 info/make.info-6 info/make.info-7 info/make.info-8 info/make.info-9 info/make.info-10 info/make.info-11 man/man1/gmake.1 share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo |
It's a binary package, a Slackware look alike,
and not usable on any system, wrong packed. But why 3.80 when you already have 3.81 : Quote:
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