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I often prefer to work in in extremis environments where there is no internet access, and hence, no easy way to get ahold of make; it's given me a bad habit of just waiting a build.bash script to do what make does most of the time. I haven't really found myself missing it that much.


If you can install bash on your airgapped dev box, why wouldn't you install make on it? Make is part of the core dev environment on just about every disto under the sun.


I've worked on payment terminals running linus that had a shell like busybox but no make.

Of course it's a damn payment terminal, no one is ever going to actually build the app on the terminal so it has no compiler either.

I'm wondering what sort of dev machine GP has that is used to build software but doesn't have make...


most minimal setups nowadays have bash, make and even perl.


I am confused, because this means that you won't be able to install anything. No compiler, no 3rd party libraries and no text editor that isn't preinstalled




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