[Dock-fans] installing on OS X

[Scott Brozell]

Hi,

On many Macs the path of make is
~  which make
/usr/bin/make
~  which gmake
gmake: Command not found.
~  which gnumake
/usr/bin/gnumake
~  make -v
GNU Make version 3.79, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for powerpc-apple-darwin7.0
Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99
        Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


You can also try
~ locate make

If it is not there then install.
This page has links to open source versions of make:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_%28software%29

Scott

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, John J. Irwin wrote:

> make is universal on *nix. If you don't have make, you'll need to
> install it. It should be part of the standard "developer" tools. Scott,
> our Mac guy, can tell you more specifics.
>
> Thomas Moon wrote:
> >
> > there is not a command called "make" on the OS X system that i am
> > aware of and I was wondering what the appropriate command would be to
> > make the files for the applications and run the required tests.
> >