gmake in Hoary

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Mon Mar 21 17:35:20 UTC 2005


On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 05:12:37PM +0000, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:
> It seems that gmake is not installed by default as there was nothing
> happened when I typed 'which gmake'. I tried to install using 'apt-get
> install gmake' but turned out it was not there.

Install the 'make' package. The only time it's generally called 'gmake'
is on proprietary Unix systems, to distinguish it from the vendor's
version of 'make'. Since this is a natively GNU-based system, we don't
use the 'g' prefix.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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