Re: Unable to understand on how 'make' will run under bash

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2022-01-19 at 12:52 +0000, Sandip Ray via Users list for the GNU 
implementation of make wrote:
> "Briefly, the shell command './configure && make && make install'
> should configure, build, and install this package."
> 
> I have started working under Windows 10 Bourne shell and not in Unix.
> I don't get how 'make' can run when we are going to install and run
> 'make' itself.

Please check the README file:

> If you need to build GNU Make and have no other 'make' program to
> use, you can use the shell script 'build.sh' instead.  To do this,
> first run 'configure' as described in INSTALL.  Then, instead of
> typing 'make' to build the program, type 'sh build.sh'.  This should
> compile the program in the current directory.  Then you will have a
> Make program that you can use for './make install', or
> whatever else.