in reply to Installing make on mac LION osx

What OS are you running on? If you are running on a Linux distribution you should be able to install/update the make you don't? have on the system.

Linux Flavorpackage install command
RedHat, Fedora and friendsyum -y install make
Debian and friendsapt-get install make
Don't remember SUSE and friends, but those should point you in the right direction if you are on a Linux distro. If you are on Solaris things get a bit dicier. As far as Windows goes I don't do windows.

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Re^2: Installing make
by ZWcarp (Beadle) on Aug 24, 2011 at 13:50 UTC
    I apologize for not specifying... I'm running max OSX v 10.7 I have access to a linux cluster but would prefer to stay on the local machine
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      Googling for "make on OSX" results in the advice

      You will have to install the "Developer Tools" that are provided as optional packages in OS X installation disks.

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        Reinstalling Xcode with all options checked was one of the first things I tried. Perhaps a restart is necessary? this is the only reason I can think of, I am fairly certain that I do have the developer tools installed.
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      Developer's Tools for Mac probably
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Re^2: Installing make
by ZWcarp (Beadle) on Aug 24, 2011 at 15:27 UTC
    I think I may have figured it out... I have Snow leopard Xcode installed on the new lion osx ... somehow the perl versions aren't synced.
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      This solved the problem for me: http://www.scicoder.org/2012/03/developer-tools-on-os-x-10-7-lion/
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