"make install" won't work.

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jerx14 Author

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"make install" won't work.

I was trying to compile faust (a program from sourceforge) using terminal but:

**************************:~ ************$ cd /Users/************/Desktop/faust-0.9.43/

**************************:faust-0.9.43 ************$ sudo make install

Password:

sudo: make: command not found

**************************:faust-0.9.43 ************$ make install

-bash: make: command not found

**************************:faust-0.9.43 ************$ sh

sh-3.2$ sudo make install

Password:

sudo: make: command not found

sh-3.2$ make install

sh: make: command not found

sh-3.2$ csh

[**************************:~/Desktop/faust-0.9.43] ************% sudo make install

sudo: make: command not found

[**************************:~/Desktop/faust-0.9.43] ************% make install

make: Command not found.

[**************************:~/Desktop/faust-0.9.43] ************% ksh

$ sudo make install

sudo: make: command not found

$ make install

ksh: make: not found

$

Unix/Terminal-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Nov 25, 2011 8:14 PM

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X423424X

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Nov 25, 2011 8:50 PM in response to jerx14

Do you have xcode installed?

Did you ever try to build any Sourceforge projects before this one? I ask that because you don't just "make install" a project. You need to build it first. Generally there's a README file which explains the procedure, configure, make, then make install, but some projects do combine these operations.

Also your shell PATH variable may be set incorrectly and not including /usr/bin where make resides. Since I always install xcode as part of a initial installation I don't remember if make is supplied there or supplied as part of the standard install. But it's immaterial since you aren't going to be able to build Sourceforge projects without xcode because xcode definitely includes the compilers, linkers, etc. needed to do a build.

Finally, IMO, your post probably should have been in the Developer Forums.

Update:

Out of curiousity I downloaded faust-0.9.43 from Sourceforge. It built without any problems. Somewhat of a strange project since it doesn't include the normal configure step. Looking at the makefile I found you can define a DESTDIR to make to override it installing into /usr/local which I didn't want just to test this out. With a configure step you would normally specify a --prefix to configure to accomplish the same thing.

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