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Upgrade gnu make on mac

I am trying to upgrade gnu make version to 4.1 on my mac, but I couldn't install successfully. Here are what I did so far:
1. install xcode v8.2.1
2. manually upgrade gnu make with the following commands. 

# Download gnu make-4.1.tar.gz from gnu website.
./configure
make 
sudo make install

This doesn't make my make version to v4.1 when I type make --version on my terminal.
3. Running xcode-select --install on command line didn't solve the problem either.

My system info:

$ sw_vers -productVersion
$ v10.12.4
$ cmake --version
$ v3.10.0
$ make --version
$ 3.81

Thanks.

Solution

  • If you put the path where make install installs before the path where the old make is found it will use the newer make.

    If the old one lives in /opt/xcode/bin and make install installs to /usr/local/bin, then make sure /usr/local/bin comes before /opt/xcode/bin in your PATH variable.

    PATH=/usr/local/bin:/opt/xcode/bin