Update: first check for a different flavour of make like nmake and update the configuration of whatever you are installing (CPAN was it?) to identify the make program to it. Failing that... (makes me wonder exactly how you got this far in your platform installation though)

So, download and install GNU make (google what I just said). It comes in tar.bz format. If you don't have bzip2 or tar you can guess what I am going to say to that! But if you are missing something fundamental like gcc or libc, then I would abort and rethink your platform.