Installing / upgrading GNU make from 3.80 to 3.81

xombboxer · 08-16-2011, 11:04 AM

Hi,

I need to install GNU make 3.81. I already have 3.80 but i need now 3.81, how do i install it. Is there a way to upgrade ?

In the download site http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ i have downloaded

Code:

 make-3.81.tar.gz

But i also see something like

Code:

make-3.81.tar.gz.sig

what is this? looks like some signed stuff. Do i need this ?

please help me.

jdkaye · 08-17-2011, 03:51 AM

You give us very little information with which to help you. What distro are you running and what version of that distro? For example I'm running Debian Wheezy and I have make 3.81. No, you don't need to compile it. I assume the tarball you downloaded make-3.81.tar.gz contains the source code. Once you tell us what distro you're using we can help you with the package installation. I assume you're running a fairly old version of some distro that may need updating. Debian stable (Squeeze) which is quite conservative also has make 3.81.
ciao,
jdk

brianL · 08-17-2011, 03:52 AM

It would help if you told us which distro are you using.

xombboxer · 08-17-2011, 04:21 AM

ohh..

I missed that while typing.

btw its Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)

jdkaye · 08-17-2011, 04:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xombboxer

ohh..

I missed that while typing.

btw its Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)

What version of make is supplied by yum?
jdk

knudfl · 08-17-2011, 06:27 AM

RHEL 5.3 has make-3.81 by default.

( It's on install disk 1 : make-3.81-3.el5.i386.rpm ).

xombboxer · 08-19-2011, 03:18 AM

got it today.

i did not know that make come by default with RHEL. I upgraded my os to 5.5, now i have gnu make 3.81

Thanks

jdkaye · 08-19-2011, 03:35 AM

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thanks,
jdk