Tiger and 'make not found'

tvbarn has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to install Movable Type on my OS X Tiger system using a straightforward tutorial I found. However, the darndest thing happens after I run the Makefile.PL for one of the modules...

Writing Makefile for DBI
Computer:~/Desktop/DBI-1.48 aaronbarnhart$ make
-bash: make: command not found
Computer:~/Desktop/DBI-1.48 aaronbarnhart$ sudo make install
sudo: make: command not found
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That's just odd. Why the heck wouldn't 'make' be on a standard-issue install of Tiger?

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Re: Tiger and 'make not found' by marto (Cardinal) on Nov 02, 2005 at 15:27 UTC
tvbarn, Have you installed 'XTools' from the Tiger CDRom? (I think this can now be downloaded from developer.apple.com) Update:Also try `sudo make` incase this is a permissions issue. Hope this helps. Martin	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Tiger and 'make not found' by Errto (Vicar) on Nov 02, 2005 at 15:50 UTC
Why the heck wouldn't 'make' be on a standard-issue install of Tiger? Because make(1) is really only necessary for people who install software from source packages, which the majority of Mac users, I strongly suspect, don't do. That's why they put it, along with the other developer tools, on a separate CD (or at least they used to - haven't seen Tiger).	[reply]
Re^2: Tiger and 'make not found' by herveus (Prior) on Nov 02, 2005 at 19:05 UTC
Howdy! IIRC, with Tiger, the XCode installer (and other development stuff) is on the system (hiding in Applications?). You don't have to download or install from media; just find the installer and run it. yours, Michael	[reply]
Re: Tiger and 'make not found' by saberworks (Curate) on Nov 02, 2005 at 16:04 UTC
I couldn't find it on the cd. I downloaded xcode tools from developer.apple.com. You also get cvs in this package so it's a good thing.	[reply]
Re^2: Tiger and 'make not found' by tvbarn (Initiate) on Nov 02, 2005 at 17:07 UTC
Yes it is a good thing. I agree this is not a perl question but it sounds like a perl question, and to novices like me that's enough justification for polling the monks. Let me go grab xcode.	[reply]
Re: Tiger and 'make not found' by cog (Parson) on Nov 02, 2005 at 15:31 UTC
Why the heck wouldn't 'make' be on a standard-issue install of Tiger? Why should it?	[reply]
Re: Tiger and 'make not found' by svenXY (Deacon) on Nov 02, 2005 at 15:26 UTC
Hi, where is the perl question? You obviously need to install the correct development software - according to my colleague the package is called xcode. Regards, svenXY	[reply]