For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Make-3.80 in Chapter 6.
Make (3.80):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/
(Last checked against version 3.80.)
Make determines, automatically, which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled and issues the commands to recompile them.
Installed program: make
make automatically determines which pieces of a large package need to be recompiled, and then issues the relevant commands.
(Last checked against version 3.79.1.)
Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld
Coreutils: basename, cat, chgrp, chmod, echo, expr, hostname,
install, ls, mv, rm, sleep, tr, uname
Diffutils: cmp
Gawk: gawk
GCC: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp, gcc
Glibc: getconf
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
M4: m4
Make: make
Sed: sed
Texinfo: install-info, makeinfo