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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:25:51 -0500
From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
To: Aaron Peterson <dopplecoder@gmail.com>
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Cc: tg webb <gordetta@math1.wanadoo.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: simple (very) Bash problem
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On 8/12/05, Aaron Peterson <dopplecoder@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/12/05, tg webb <gordetta@math1.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > In SuSe 9.1 and in the shell, Bash works fine until I attempt "make".  =
It
> > responds with unknown command.  I know I'm missing something obvious bu=
t
> > what?  Any help gratefully received
>=20
> It's a mystery why you're asking about SuSe here, but the obvious
> answer could be that "make" doesn't exist on that system.  Lots of
> Linux distributions that are binary package based (RPM, etc) don't
> install a development environment by default.  I don't know how people
> survive in a world without make, but apparently some do.
>=20

Yea I was a bit confused as to what he wanted help with... by default
SuSE does not install development packages of any kind, I had to go
search around in YaST2's package manager for KDE's Quanta Plus the
other day... If it won't install a simple html editor when you do a
default install you can forget about make.