RE: Upgrade 8.30 to 8.31

[Steve Waltner]

If you installed GNU Make from source code (instead of a downloadable  
package), it got installed into /usr/local/. However /usr/local/bin/  
is not in the default search path on a Mac OS X system. Mac OS X 10.4  
and higher has the default shell for new accounts set to bash, while  
previous versions of OS X used tcsh. So, if you created your account  
on a system running 10.3 or earlier and have upgraded it to a current  
OS, you will need to put something like the following in your  
$HOME/.cshrc:

set path=(~/bin /usr/local/bin $path /Developer/Tools /usr/X11R6/bin)

If your account was created while the system was running 10.4 or  
higher, you would put something like the following in your  
$HOME/.profile:

PATH=${HOME}/bin:/usr/local/bin:${PATH}:/Developer/Tools:/usr/X11R6/bin
export PATH

If you used something like Fink to download/install the software, like  
Dave mentioned, you'll need to look for where it was installed and  
tweak your PATH like I showed. Fink and FinkCommander are great tools  
for the Mac user wanting to work with Unix. The Fink admins have taken  
thousands of open source packages and figured out what customizations  
need to be done (if any) to get them to compile on OS X. Like many of  
the package managers on Linux, you can use Fink to install and of the  
dependencies for a package automatically, which is the major benefit  
of using something like this. Fink loads its software into /sw/ (ie: / 
sw/bin/, /sw/include/, /sw/lib/, ....)

Steve


Tommy McGlynn wrote on 07 October 2008 06:29:

> > Hi, I'm trying to upgrade make from 8.30 to 8.31
>
>   Can I borrow your time machine?  ;-)  ITYM "3.80" and "3.81"!
>
> > I'm running Mac OSX (10.4). I installed 8.31 but when I invoke  
> "make -v"
> > I see that I am still using version 8.30.
> >
> > Any help?
>
>   Probably a problem with your PATH setting; does "which -a make"  
> show you've
> got multiple versions and maybe the old one is nearer the start of  
> your path
> and gets chosen first?  (I'm not a mac guy and don't know how the  
> installer
> works, but if it didn't just altogether fail silently, then that new  
> version
> has to be on your hard drive *somewhere*!)
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
> --
> Can't think of a witty .sigline today....