Making gmake

mod_jserv uses GNU make, which is incompatible with all other known makes. So, you may need to get (from http://www.gnu.org/software/make/make.html) and build GNU make before starting. If you do, here’s how we did it.

Since you probably already have a perfectly good make, you don’t want the new one to get mixed up with it. Just for safety’s sake, you might want to back up your real make before you start.

Create a directory for the sources as usual, unpack them, and make gmake (cunningly not called make) with the commands:

./configure --program-prefix=g
make
make install

You should end up with /usr/local/bin/gmake.

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