On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 4:02 PM Pierre Rouleau <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 5:10 PM 胡珂越 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This is Correct. >> >> Keeyou. >> >>> If you don't want to build GNU Make by hand, and you are using Homebrew >>> on your Mac, then just install the latest version of GNU Make that way. >>> For example: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/make > > As already mentioned, under macOS one alternative is to use Homebrew to > install GNU make. > > It might install it as gmake ...
The binary name should be just 'make' unless it was patched by someone. See Makefile.am at <https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/Makefile.am#n26>: bin_PROGRAMS = make Some other GNU programs use something like $(bin_prefix) to add a 'g'. I think sed and awk use it to name the binary. But that does not appear to happen with make. (The makefile recipe would use something like '$(bin_prefix)make', and $(bin_prefix) would be empty or the letter 'g'). > ... but you can either place the Homebrew directory ahead of /usr/bin > (where Apple old make is located) or create a symlink to the Homebrew gmake > inside another > of your directories that are placed ahead of /usr/bin in your PATH. > > That's what I used under macOS and that works fine. No need to build it > yourself. Jeff
