Upgrade gnu make on mac

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I am trying to upgrade gnu make version to 4.1 on my mac, but I couldn't install successfully. Here are what I did so far:
1. install xcode v8.2.1
2. manually upgrade gnu make with the following commands. 

# Download gnu make-4.1.tar.gz from gnu website.
./configure
make 
sudo make install

This doesn't make my make version to v4.1 when I type make --version on my terminal.
3. Running xcode-select --install on command line didn't solve the problem either.

My system info:

$ sw_vers -productVersion
$ v10.12.4
$ cmake --version
$ v3.10.0
$ make --version
$ 3.81

Thanks.

macos-sierra macos makefile
1 Answers

If you put the path where make install installs before the path where the old make is found it will use the newer make.

If the old one lives in /opt/xcode/bin and make install installs to /usr/local/bin, then make sure /usr/local/bin comes before /opt/xcode/bin in your PATH variable.

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/opt/xcode/bin

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