Re: Installing GNU make-3.81

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

On 22.07.2010 23:45, Jeffrey Freeman wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> Let me preface by saying this is my first venture into the GNU realm. I
> am using MS Windows Vista, and while I'm trying to be a big kid, I may
> need someone to hold my hand as I cross the street.
>
> Ultimately, I would like to use GNU Octave with GNUPlot, and from what I
> have read thus far, I need to install GNU make be able to do that. I
> have downloaded and unpacked GNU make-3.81. Upon reading the README and
> INSTALL files, I believe I am supposed to 'cd' to the directory
> containing the source code, then proceed with:
>
> .\configure
> .\sh build.sh     (since this is my first 'make' program)
> .\make check
> .\make install
> .\make clean
Why do you just not use Cygwin or MSYS/MinGW?

Here exists prebuild GNU Make and nice build environment.

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С уважением, Александр Гавенко.