Prepare Make to be compiled: ./configure --prefix=/usr Continue with compiling the package: make And finish off installing the package: make install By default /usr/bin/make is installed setgid kmem. This is needed on some systems so it can check the load average by using /dev/kmem. However, on Linux systems, setgid kmem is not needed, so we remove this from our make binary. This also fixes problems with the make ignoring certain variables like LD_LIBRARY_PATH. chgrp root /usr/bin/make && chmod 755 /usr/bin/make