Re: [Ubuntu 14.04 x86_64] Unable to install gcc make 3.82

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 2015-11-01 at 19:00 -0500, Rahul Muthoo wrote:
> I have gcc make 2.75 installed with the fresh installation of Ubuntu
> 14.04.

I don't really understand what you're saying here.  "gcc" and "make" are
two completely different programs that are not related to each other, so
saying "gcc make" is confusing.

Also there is no version "2.75" of either GCC or GNU make, so I don't
know what you mean by that.

> I am trying to install gcc 3.82. I downloaded the .tar file from
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ and followed installation instruction.

I assume you mean "make 3.82" here not "gcc 3.82".

> But the 'make' fails to complete with following error:
> 
> address@hidden:~/Downloads/make-3.82$ makemake
> all-recursivemake[1]: Entering directory
> `/home/rmuthoo/Downloads/make-3.82'/bin/bash: -c: line 0: syntax error
> near
> unexpected token `do'/bin/bash: -c: line 0: `fail= failcom='exit 1';
> forf
> in x $MAKEEFLAGS; do  case f in  *=*  --[!kk]*);; \           *k*)
> failcom='fail=yes';;  esac;  doonee; 'make[1]: *** [all-recursive]
> Error
> 1make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rmuthoo/Downloads/make-3.82'make:
> ***
> [all] Error 2*

Unfortunately your email client has corrupted the content here, so it's
hard to tell what might be wrong.  The whitespace is messed up and some
characters are doubled, etc.

> Please find attached config.log.

The problem didn't seem to be related to the configure step, which
completed without error.

> I have looked online for any help but i am not able to resolve this.
> Any pointers are appreciated.

I have no idea what the problem is.  However, the make package provides
a shell script you can use to build the make program, instead of running
"make", if you like; see the README file or just run:

  ./build.sh

after you run configure, instead of running "make".