Re: make not compiling -- Solved

[Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen@iki.fi>]

2010/6/18 prakhar gaur <prakhar_aaidu16@hotmail.com>:
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>> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:41:02 +0300
>> Subject: Re: make not compiling
>> From: eero.volotinen@iki.fi
>> To: prakhar_aaidu16@hotmail.com
>> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>>
>> 2010/6/18 prakhar gaur <prakhar_aaidu16@hotmail.com>:
>> >
>> > Dear All,
>> >
>> > This is my first week with Debian 504. I am using it as a host system to
>> > build LFS(Linux From Scratch).
>> > I ran a script which checks whether all prerequisites are there on the
>> > host
>> > system(Debian 504).
>> > It gave a lots of not present(eg. gcc, Binutils, Bison, gawk, make)
>> > I installed gcc, Binutils, Bison, gawk using Synaptic.
>> > For make i had source code, so i tried building it.
>> > The configure script is showing some warnings, but no errors.
>> > I am pasting only the lines showing errors.
>> >
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>> make is not installed, try to install it using apt-get install make .
>>
>> try also installing build-essential package, since it provides lot of
>> development related tools..
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>>
>> br,
>> --
>> Eero
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> Dear Eero,
>
> Thank you for the help, installed both make and build-essentials.
> Just wanted to ask why was I not able to compile the make-3.81 source code
> and how did using apt-get resolve the problem.

your system was missing "make" software, usually it is required to
build software..

--
Eero