Re: Upgrading gmake!

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Marcus Svanberg <address@hidden> writes:

  ms> I have a problem with upgrading of GNU Make.
  ms> I have gmake 3.78.1 installed and I want to upgrade to 3.79.1.
  ms> I have downloaded a file make-3.79.1.tar.gz from ftp.gnu.org and I
  ms> unpacked it and ran ./configure;make;make install on it. If I then
  ms> checks the version och make with "make -v" it says that make 3.78.1
  ms> still is running!
  ms> What have I forgotten?

By default, configure will use a prefix of /usr/local, which means that
new versions of GNU make are installed into /usr/local/bin.

If, after you install it, you're still seeing the old version that means
it is in some other directory, and that directory is on your PATH before
/usr/local/bin (or, /usr/local/bin isn't even on your PATH at all).

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