I am new to ubuntu. I am looking for any help in installing GNU Make version 3.75 or other older version on ubuntu 15.10. I understand that the package for older version doesnot exist for ubuntu 15.10 and I am not able to get the instruction anywhere on how to get the packages. Any help regarding this is appreciated.TIA
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why do you need that specific version? Just fix your makefile that it works with later versions – arved Feb 23 '16 at 19:46
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Pls see my comment to @reinierpost 's answer below. – Omer Feb 25 '16 at 17:41
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sudo apt-get build-dep make
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.75.tar.gz
tar xvf make-3.75.tar.gz
cd make-3.75
./configure
make
sudo make install prefix=/opt/make-3.75
# or sudo make install to install it into /usr/local
Why do you need this? As arved suggests: if your Makefiles are 20 years old and incompatible with current versions of make, and can't be fixed, you probably have bigger problems elsewhere. Whatever those Makefiles try to do may require some tweaking to work on Ubuntu 15.10.
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I am trying to build android source (gingerbread version) and keep getting the Make error `build/core/prebuilt.mk:123: *** recipe commences before first target. Stop.` I have checked for tabs and spaces and everything seems to be as it should. It was suggested in a forum to use version 3.8 of Make to solve this ([here](http://forum.cyanogenmod.org/topic/90426-help-i-need-help-building-cm72/)). I am not particular about 3.75 but wanted to switch to older version. – Omer Feb 25 '16 at 17:40
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I don't think an older version would help. I would check the line endings on the file (Windows, Unix and Mac have different ways of ending lines) and whether there is a [BOM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark) or some potential other source of confusion at the start. – reinierpost Jan 19 '18 at 10:13