Re: Make?

[Joanna Bryson <joannab dai ed ac uk>]

"make" is a basic unix utility that helps keep dependencies correct
in managing large projects involving lots of files.  It decides
whether things need to be done on the basis of the time stamps
of the files they depend on.  The archetypical use of make is 
compiling large programs, though it can be used for other things
(see the nutshell book on the subject if you're curious.) 

make should live in /usr/bin.  Perhaps you didn't get it if you didn't
install the development packages with your system.  It's pretty hard
to imagine a unix distribution without it, though.

You might also have been missing the makefile (or Makefile), the script
that make reads for its instructions / dependencies.

Joanna