make is an old Unix utility to build projects. The basic principle it uses is to track dependencies between targets (which are often files).
Questions tagged [make]
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Compiling in linux to specific directory and then package the software
I need to compile a software from the sources.
./config && make && make install
On that, it does install a bunch of stuff everywhere(Libraries, etc)
But the thing is, that I also need to copy that software after to another set of machines that I…

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Is it possible to install ffmpeg and x264 on a Synology Diskstation 209?
Complete linux novice here! :)
I'm trying to get my brilliant DS209 NAS box to do some transcoding for me of a few AVI videos to a format suitable for my Apply iTouch - yes I could do it with another machine and Handbrake but it would be really…

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Errors when Compiling Nginx with Pagespeed on CentOS 7
I am trying to compile Nginx with Pagespeed from source and I am having a hard time trying to resolve the not found errors I am seeing when I add the configure settings. This is my configure settings:
I am using CentOS 7 - 64 bit
Configure…

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Unable to compile Varnish 2.1 under SUSE 10.3
I just cloned the latest varnish 2.1 from git-repository. All the dependencies listed on the website have been installed. I run the following commands:
./autogen.sh -> works fine
./configure -> works fine too
But
make -> fails
with the following…

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Install compiled linux program on multiple computers
I'm sorry if this sounds like a silly question, but when I compile something on linux using the usual "./configure, make, make install" steps, how can I install the programs on other servers without having to recompile?
I am trying to avoid having…

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Compiling linux kernel - `make install` asks for LILO. Now what?
So I am following this guide to compile my custom kernel - http://library.linode.com/linode-platform/custom-instances/pv-grub-custom-compiled-kernel#sph_compile-and-install-the-kernel
So far so good, but I hit a little road block with make install.
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Samtools - Trouble installing on Amazon EC2 Instance
Hi guys I don't think my install of Samtools is going right.
First I don't think I have zlib and I'm not sure how to install it so
that samtools will see it. I think Samtools requires zlib?
I'm under the restriction that I can only
write files to…

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Installing Node.js with OpenSSL on Amazon EC2
I am trying to set up a new Amazon EC2 instance (never done it before) and I'm stuck at getting Node.js working with OpenSSL.
First I installed it without OpenSSL just to see if I could, works fantastically. Then I went back and downloaded…

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Make: Permission Denied (until I `cd .`)
I have an account on a shared host running FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE. I was compiling my own version of Ruby today, and encountered this anomaly: If I tried to execute 'make', I get a "permission denied" error. However, if I execute:
cd .
And then…

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PHP make install seems to end abruptly and does not update libphp5.so
I'm trying to compile PHP 5.3.3 and after a lot of ups and downs, I finally did 'make' it followed by 'make install' which just shows this:
root@server [/tmp/php-5.3.3]# make install
Installing PHP SAPI module: cgi
Installing PHP CGI binary:…

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Linux noob question - How do I update a program built from source?
When I build a program from source (CentOS), How do I go about updating it to a new version? Can I just run the make && make install again with the same configure options?

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How do I make my PHP Source installation use the libraries inside of /usr/local/programname/lib instead or /usr/local/lib?
How do I make my PHP Source installation use the libraries inside of /usr/local/programname/lib instead or /usr/local/lib?
I have tried setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to each of the program names like…
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How to install nginx-module-brotli?
I have a server with ubuntu 20.04
But I am unable to install nginx-module-brotli for my nginx server.
Here are the commands I use to install Brotli for Nginx :
$ sudo apt install git gcc cmake libpcre3 libpcre3-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev openssl…

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Error while compiling/installing PHP with FPM for RPM on Centos 5.4 x64
I'm trying to make an RPM with PHP 5.3.1 and PHP-FPM 0.6 for CentOS 5.4. So far it goes quite well, but when rpmbuild gets to the installation phase it fails with the following error:
Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.63379
+ umask…
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Compiling / installing GDAL 2.2.x with MBTILES driver on REDHAT 7
I am trying to get GDAL with MBTiles Driver working on a RHEL7 instance.
I have downloaded the source code and am trying to compile it with MBTILES.
This is the first time I'm compiling something myself from source code.
For some reason the…

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