Re: How do I install gmake on NetBSD 1.6.2 (i386)?

[Ian Clark <mrrooster%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 15 September 2010 19:27,  <bch%methodlogic.net@localhost> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 02:21:41PM +0530, Ashish Mahamuni wrote:
>> How do I install gmake on NetBSD 1.6.2 (i386)?
>> I tried installing gmake-3.81.tgz, but its not working.
>
> One thing you could do is grab pkgsrc and build it yourself... if you run
> into difficulties w/ contemporary pkgsrc, you could checkout a version
> from about the same time 1.6.2 was released.
>
You could also just compile it from source, I've been using it since
NetBSD 1.6 days and I'm pretty sure it compiles cleanly. (or at least
3.80 did, I'm sure 3.81 will be fine.)

You might want to pass '--program-prefix=g' to the configure script,
otherwise it will just build as 'make', however by default it
installes into /usr/local/bin so you can either just rename it after
install, or symlink as required.

Cheers,

Ian