If you are working in hostile wilderness and do not have access to an
appropriately packaged compatible make program, you may try the
bmake program found at crufty's.
Let us review together the installation procedure.
We downlad the files bmake.tar.gz and mk.tar.gz distributed by
their author:
http://void.crufty.net/ftp/pub/sjg/bmake.tar.gz
http://void.crufty.net/ftp/pub/sjg/mk.tar.gz
In the sequel, we assume that the tarballs were downloaded to
~/distfiles.
Point your shell to a working directory and explode the tarballs with
% tar xzf ~/distfiles/bmake.tar.gz
% tar xzfC ~/distfiles/mk.tar.gz bmake
The tarballs are shipped with a build and install script, that will
use /usr/local as installation prefix.
% ./bmake/boot-strap --prefix=/usr/local --install
It is possible to change this prefix, as in
% ./bmake/boot-strap --prefix=${HOME} --install
If the command completes succesfully, the bmake program is then
installed under the given prefix PREFIX and the standard macros
shipped with the program are in ${PREFIX}/share/mk. If appropriate,
use the same installation prefix for BSD Owl Scripts.
The portability of bmake is quite good, I only experienced problems
while trying to build it with an obsolete GCC on Solaris 10. Versions
of GCC newer as 3.6 seem to build bmake without error.