An utility that automates build processes, used mainly to build software on Unix-like systems.
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Where do I find nmake for Windows 7
I'm trying to compile a Perl source and I can't seem to find a version of nmake that works with Windows 7 64 bit. I've searched all over Microsoft's website and my Googlefu seems to be failing me. Can ...
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sh: make: not found
I got the following error message:
sh: make: not found
I guess I need to install make, or a compiler on my Ubuntu 9.04
Could you tell me what I exactly need to type to install it ?
thanks
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Snow Leopard: make command not found, even though XCode is installed?
So I've installed XCode on Snow Leopard. Why am I getting messages like this:
sudo: make: command not found
What do I need to do to resolve this issue?
Solution:
I'm not sure what happened, but I ...
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Do something when a file is changed
When I write a LaTeX document, I find myself to press F6 in my editor to compile often. Or when I use SASS, I often type make to convert my .scss into .css.
Now I would like to let the machine do the ...
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./configure && make && make install
I am logged in as a regular user. Should I use:
./configure && make && make install
or
sudo ./configure && sudo make && sudo make install
or
./configure ...
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Running commands in parallel with a limit of simultaneous number of commands
Sequential: for i in {1..1000}; do do_something $i; done - too slow
Parallel: for i in {1..1000}; do do_something $i& done - too much load
How to run commands in parallel, but not more than, for ...
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What does 'make install' do?
Moving from Windows to Linux, I am unable to understand the process of installing software in Linux. In Windows, when we run an installation file, it asks where you wish to install the program, most ...
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make: Interrupt/Exception caught
I'm using Make from the MinGW distribution. It has always worked, but recently I've gotten the following error:
> make clean
make: Interrupt/Exception caught (code = 0xc0000005, addr = 0x0040b0ac)
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How to run Vim command from the shell?
This might be a dumb question, but bear with me.
I'm automating some of the usual stuff I do when setting up a new work environment, and would like to automate the Vim command :BundleInstall (for ...
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Portable method of opening a new terminal window?
So, I'm working on a custom makefile script (for TinyOS, if anyone cares) that builds a file and then runs it in a simulator.
The problem is that the simulator takes it's input from standard in, and ...
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How do you install gnu MAKE without compiler
I'm a little new in this area. I have a virtual machine centos5.1 that doesn't come with make or any compiler... basically stripped down. It doesn't come with any install packages like yum, rpm or ...
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What happens when I run “./configure” in Linux?
When we try to ./configure some Linux software from source before makeing it, usually there is a huge list of checking other software parameters performed, for instance the below is a tiny part of ...
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Why is 'sudo' often omitted in installation instructions?
I often find build instructions like this:
./configure
make
make install
while in reality I need to type
sudo make install
Why is this not mentioned in the installation instructions? Or is it ...
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Have: Debian - Doesn't work: Internet - Need: make or automake
I recently installed Debian Lenny 5.0.3 on a macbook (black, model 4,1). The system seems to work.
However, I found out that my ethernet port is not working (I have only used wireless so far), and ...
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How do I declare the terminal type in vim so that :make can output colours?
I use cmake, which produces makefiles with nice colourful output, but when I :make from Vim (well, actually MacVim, which is essentially GVim but I figure that doesn't make much difference), the ...
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Installing tmux on Ubuntu from source
I've download tmux and am trying to install it on Ubuntu 10.04.
$ ./configure
Configured for Linux
$ make
cc -DBUILD="\"1.3\"" -std=c99 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -iquote. -c -o attributes.o ...
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cp - do not overwrite in makefile
In the makefile for my project, I want it to copy a config file only if the file does not already exist in the destination folder. At the moment I am using:
cp -n
However, recently someone has ...
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Is it usually necessary to do make and then make install?
This is something that has always bugged me. It seems like I always see build instructions for building and then installing something saying to do this:
make
sudo make install
Is there really any ...
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How to install Python 2.7 with Unix libraries on Cygwin
How do I install Python 2.7 with Unix libraries on Cygwin?
Obviously getting Python 2.6 is easy - just install the Cygwin package with setup.exe.
Installing the Windows version of Python 2.7 ...
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Quick introduction to Linux needed
I have to get into Linux ASAP and realy mean ASAP.
I have installed Cygwin but as allways - things dont go as easy as one would like.
First problem i enconter was - i choose KDE package, but there is ...
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Make and Xcode for OS X Snow Leopard
I have OS X Snow Leopard and I need install make (this exists in Xcode). I don't have the DVD to install though.
On the Xcode page I don't find an old version of Xcode.
How I can get an old ...
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How to use makefiles on Windows
I have a LaTeX project using make files for compilation and want to write the texts on Windows using Kile.
I had a quick look on google but only really came up with Make for Windows the last version ...
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For simple projects, what do makefiles offer over “plain” bash scripts?
For example, if I'm developing a front-end only website, I might have several CoffeeScript files, several Sass files, several HTML Files, and a few images.
The CoffeeScript files need to be compiled ...
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How to remove three consecutive line feeds in a Makefile rule?
I need to search for and replace three consecutive newline characters in an input file and filter them out of an output file for a makefile rule on Centos 4. I am using GNU sed v4.1.2 and GNU make ...
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Tool to run a command when file changed
Does anybody know of tool for Linux that can watch a custom subtree of the filesystem for changes, and executes a custom command when a change occurs ?
Such a tool would be very useful to quickly ...
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rsync: how to copy a file that might not exist without an error
I have a command in my Makefile that sync's up my bibliographies from an external source. If rsync fails because the target file does not exist rsync exits with error 23. I can hide the error by ...
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sh on Lion can't cd into folders with implicit paths (causing make to fail constantly)
I've had a problem with my OSX 10.7 Lion install for some time and I finally took some time to investigate.
The issue is that when running make, I always get an error of the form:
/bin/sh: line 0: ...
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Make test failing when installing packages with CPAN on Cygwin
I'm trying to install Date::Manip::Date, which requires YAML::Syck. I'm running Cygwin on Windows XP.
Both packages fail their make tests. I have installed other packages sucessfully, such as ...
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“make & make install” software on Linux
I have worked on Linux for a year. One thing bothers me is that I am not familiar with the process of installing new software with source code(I can't install them from netword due to environment ...
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Make Command is taking too long
I am trying to install NodeJS on Ubuntu, following http://howtonode.org/how-to-install-nodejs. When I ran make command, its taking too too long, printing lines after lines on screen. Is there any ...
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What exactly is the use of prefix while running configure?
I am trying to install 32 bit Python on x86_64_ Linux.
Following instructions from http://blog.devork.be/2009/02/compiling-32-bit-python-on-amd64.html
I downloaded the tarball from here: ...
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How can I go back to the initial opened buffer after :make in vim
When I use make into vim, with :make it automatically jump to the first error, displaying a new buffer in the current tab if needed.
I use vim with multiple tabs, most of the time the error buffer is ...
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make pgrouting problem
I try to make pgrouting. What am I doing wrong?
anton@anton-P4I45Gx-PE:~/src/pgrouting$ cmake -DWITH_TSP=ON -DWITH_DD=ON .
-- POSTGRESQL_EXECUTABLE is POSTGRESQL_EXECUTABLE-NOTFOUND
-- Found ...
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“make menuconfig” throwing cannot find -lc error in my Fedora 11 PC
When i try to do a make menuconfig in a Fedora 11 machine it is throwing the following error message:
[root@PC04 kernel]# make menuconfig
HOSTCC -static scripts/basic/fixdep
...
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Ubuntu libraries problem
I already asked this question on SO, but it seems like the problem is probably with linker.
So, the question is:
I'm trying to build a project, using $ make, but it fails:
host SharedLib: ...
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Make command in Ubuntu linux
I just recently started learning different Linux commands but I still don't understand how to use the 'make' command. Please is there anyone that understands how to use 'make'?
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How do I prevent myself from accidentally specifying too many threads when compiling?
When I compile stuff I usually want to do this fast, so on my workstation I issue
make -j16
And (gnu) make starts compiling with 16 cores. However when I am back on my laptop I don't have 16 cores ...
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What is the character used to indent the Make file rule recipe?
I am using gnu make and in a Makefile I have, I see below rule.
I want to add a similar rule with a recipe, but when I add a rule and its receipe on the next line by giving a tab or space for the ...
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Linux tool to autodownload and build from SourceForge?
Has anyone made anything (even just a script) to automatically download, untar, and make projects off of SourceForge in Linux? How could I do that?
I am using Ubuntu 12.10, specifically.
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sudo make not working on os x… “make not found”
I recently got a new MacBook Air and decided to do a fresh install without using the migration assistant.
I'm running into issues building software that requires "Make". I do have xcode installed, ...
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auto make/build (not GNU automake)
Is there any utility to monitor file changes and invoke GNU make?
Or, more generally, periodically invoke a command when some file changed?
or Makefile contains the checking interval?
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make command for installing OpenSSH on Ubuntu
I am currently trying to compile OpenSSH on Ubuntu.
I am following the steps below which I got from the openssh website;
(ref: http://www.openssh.com/openbsd.html)
OpenSSH 6.2: March 22, 2013
...
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Automatically `make` when dependencies change
Is there a way to have make automatically run when you edit one of the files needed for the build?
Related question: Configure makefile to run on file change, but that only has an answer for Mac OS X ...
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Error related to pkg-config when installing frei0r as part of another package
I am trying to build https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut on OS X Lion (using their script in scripts/build_shotcut.sh) and after numerous hurdles I'm stuck on this error:
./configure: line 16062: ...
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cv.h not found in fedora 15 install of opencv and highgui
I'm writing object tracking software in C++ and using OpenCV and highgui. The problem I have right now is that even after sudo yum install opencv and using the yumex frontend to ensure that all of the ...
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Ubuntu terminal characters required in Makefiles
So the Linux From Scratch Hint recommends that before you even attempt LFS you should be able to build and install emacs from scratch. I am trying to do this.
The INSTALL doc claims it's fairly ...
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Compiling/Using a Linux source on Mac OS X
I need to use some piece of software for a school project: the NEAT package.
This package is intended for linux use though, and I'm on a mac.
I know I could use Virtualbox to emulate a Linux distro ...
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Build Firefox from source code under Mac OS X
I'm trying to build Firefox from source code under my Macbook pro. I believe I follow all direction on their pages, yet I still stuck on building it up.
I installed all requirement (mercurial libidl ...
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Configure makefile to run on file change
Is there a way to run make automatically when a file changes? I'm on a Mac. Non-polling would be best but I'll accept polling too.
