installing "make" in terminal

hi, just having a problem using "make" in the terminal, i have xcode installed as i understood that it might have been the problem i was facing, does anyone have any input as to how i might install "make" for use with college software

Make should be installed along with Xcode. There should be a symlink in /Developer/usr/bin from make to gnumake. Does this exist?

make -> gnumake symlink

yes as far as I can tell there is a symlink between the two in the bin folder

There should also be a copy of gnumake in your /usr/bin/ folder as well. Edit the file /etc/paths and if /usr/bin isn't there (which it should be), add it.

If this doesn't work, post back with the output from "echo $PATH" (without the quotes).

to the best of my knowledge the /usr/bin is in the $PATH and there is a gnumake along with make in the bin directory for which make is an alias for gnumake

If you have /usr/bin in your path (which you should) and there is a symlink from make to gnumake, you should be good to go. Does it work if you try to build something? If not, what is the output?

Similar make problem

I recently updated to Lion from snow leopard and I am having some troubles using make. I upgraded to Xcode 4.2 because I heard that could cause a problem but I am still having issues. I went though each of the things mentioned in this forum already (each of them checking out) and this is what is listed when I try to use the terminal to install the perl module HTML:arser:

morricej:html-parser-3.69 Jarrod$ make
cp lib/HTML/PullParser.pm blib/lib/HTML/PullParser.pm
cp Parser.pm blib/lib/HTML/Parser.pm
cp lib/HTML/Entities.pm blib/lib/HTML/Entities.pm
cp lib/HTML/LinkExtor.pm blib/lib/HTML/LinkExtor.pm
cp lib/HTML/TokeParser.pm blib/lib/HTML/TokeParser.pm
cp lib/HTML/Filter.pm blib/lib/HTML/Filter.pm
cp lib/HTML/HeadParser.pm blib/lib/HTML/HeadParser.pm
/opt/local/bin/perl /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap Parser.xs > Parser.xsc && mv Parser.xsc Parser.c
/opt/local/bin/perl mkhctype >hctype.h
/opt/local/bin/perl mkpfunc >pfunc.h
/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -c -pipe -O2 -arch i386 -arch ppc -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -I/opt/local/include -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include -O3 -DVERSION=\"3.69\" -DXS_VERSION=\"3.69\" "-I/opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/darwin-2level/CORE" -DMARKED_SECTION Parser.c
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/gcc-4.0: No such file or directory
make: *** [Parser.o] Error 127

Do I need to install gcc-4.0? I thought this was included in Xcode? Is it ok for me to do a manual install of this without messing anything up?

Thanks for any help you might be able to provide.

Work around for make problem

I was able to figure out (somewhat) what was happening with the reference to gcc-4.0 during my HTML:: Parser install. It turns out the version of perl that I was using was the default one that was installed during an installation from MacPorts (using perl version 5.8.9). When I updated to Lion this version of perl was still the default version of perl because of the way my $PATHS variable was set up. Anyway, for some reason this version of perl causes the makefile when installing modules to call specifically for gcc-4.0 instead of the default that is used for lion (not too sure about this but it seems to be either gcc or gcc-4.2). Using the system's version of perl (5.12.3) was able to clear this up for me. Hope this might help for anybody else out there who might be going through a similar process.