This post lists the instructions to download, build and install Make 3.81 to a local directory.
Before running these instructions CD into a directory you want to install in.
Commands
# Save directory
INSTALLDIR=$(pwd)
# Put a custom bin folder in place and update the path to check it first
LOCALTOOLS=$(pwd)/tools echo $LOCALTOOLS mkdir -p $LOCALTOOLS echo export PATH=$LOCALTOOLS/bin:\$PATH > set_env.sh source ./set_env.sh
# Test it mkdir -p $LOCALTOOLS/bin echo echo Hello > $LOCALTOOLS/bin/test-set_env.sh chmod +x $LOCALTOOLS/bin/test-set_env.sh test-set_env.sh # You should see "Hello"
#Get and install make-3.81 locally CURDIRBEFOREMAKE=$(pwd) LOCALPACKAGE=$(pwd)/package echo $LOCALPACKAGE mkdir -p $LOCALPACKAGE cd $LOCALPACKAGE wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.81.tar.gz tar -xvzf $LOCALPACKAGE/make-3.81.tar.gz cd make-3.81 ./configure --prefix=$LOCALTOOLS make sudo make install cd $CURDIRBEFOREMAKE
#Test make cd $INSTALLDIR
source ./set_env.sh
which make # you should see $LOCALTOOLS/bin/make make --version # should show GNU Make 3.81
Reference
GNU image from link.
