[R] make

[Prof Brian Ripley]

As the R-admin manual says, you can use either the GNU make or the Sun 
native make which is in /usr/ccs/bin.

The phrase `does not work' is dreaded by all technical support personnel: 
it is maximally uniformative.  So please try again to explain the actual 
problem!

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Roger D. Peng wrote:

> I believe the recommended `make' command is GNU make.  You may want to 
> install/try this and see if it works.  It may already be installed on 
> your system but called `gmake'.
> 
> -roger
> 
> George Caunt wrote:
> 
> >During the installation I do my './configure' but the 'make'
> >command does not work. I'm using the Sun native make, full
> >path /usr/xpg4/bin/make and we have a gcc compiler. I could
> >really use some help trying to understand what the make com-
> >mand is doing. (or not doing in my case)

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