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<sect1 id="ch-system-make" role="wrap">
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    <productname>make</productname>
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    <address>&make-url;</address>
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  <title>Make-&make-version;</title>

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    <primary sortas="a-Make">Make</primary>
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  <sect2 role="package">
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    <para>The Make package contains a program for compiling packages.</para>

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      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

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        <seg>&make-ch6-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&make-ch6-du;</seg>
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  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Make</title>
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    <para>Prepare Make for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>

    <para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>

    <para>The test suite needs to know where supporting perl files are located.
    We use an environment variable to accomplish this.  To test the 
    results, issue:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="test">make PERL5LIB=$PWD/tests/ check</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>

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    <title>Contents of Make</title>

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      <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>

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        <seg>make</seg>
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      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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      <varlistentry id="make">
        <term><command>make</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Automatically determines which pieces of a package need to
          be (re)compiled and then issues the relevant commands</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-make make">
            <primary sortas="b-make">make</primary>
          </indexterm>
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