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Midou
Midou

Reputation: 57

make command not found

I am running the following command to install a package in ubuntu 16.04 :

make install

In the output I have the following messages :

make: /usr/bin/sh: Command not found
Makefile:12: recipe for target 'install' failed
make: *** [install] Error 127

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5603

Answers (1)

MadScientist
MadScientist

Reputation: 100781

Systems with /usr/bin/sh are few and far between. The de facto standard location for the shell is /bin/sh.

Something in that package's makefile must be setting the SHELL variable to /usr/bin/sh, which is wrong (it's generally a bad idea for a makefile to set SHELL at all, unless it needs a specific non-standard shell).

You can run make SHELL=/bin/sh to override this incorrect setting.

Upvotes: 3

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