Re: make command

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 09:43 AM 9/24/99 -0700, Garcia, Paul wrote:

lloy already gave a good answer but let me answer your other question and
expand on a point that confused me when I was (more of a) novice.

>1 - i am running this without 'knowing' what path is required, so where can
>i look for this utility?  is it called a utility?

Maybe someone with a RH 6.0 system will run this command for you:

rpm -qf `which make`

On my RH5.2 system, it's make-3.76.1-5 but before you go look for a rpm,
see if make is installed with these:

rpm -qa | grep make
which make

The first will search for any package with make in the name and the second
will do that search lloy wrote about to find make.  Sounds like it's not
there but it's worth a shot.  Red Hat's default install leaves '.' off the
path because that's considered insecure.  For example, one could easily
make a script to do bad things and call it 'ls'.  Then you call the
sysadmin over and get him/her to execute ls as root and chaos ensues.  If
you think your system will never become compromised, or if you don't care,
then you can go ahead and put '.' at the end of your path.  That's less
dangerous because it will search elsewhere before the current directory.
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