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Comment by plorkyeran | Hacker News Reader

Apple does not ship any version of gmake. The only included make is BSD make.

On my machine (Golden Gate):

   [2026-10-01 9:35:10] % which make
   /usr/bin/make
   [2026-10-01 9:35:39] % /usr/bin/make --version
   GNU Make 3.81
   Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
   There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

   This program built for i386-apple-darwin11.3.0

On Sequoia it was the same.

You can get an updated gmake via brew.

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/make

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