How can I install a newer version of make on Mac OS?

homebrew, macos, makefile

Solution

brew ships a `make` in the `homebrew/dupes` tap. `brew install homebrew/dupes/make` puts a `gmake` binary in the PATH to avoid clashes with the default make version on macOS.

The option `--with-default-names` will install as `make` and thus shadow the default version.

See `brew info homebrew/dupes/make` for more details.

homebrew/dupes/make: stable 4.2.1 (bottled)
Utility for directing compilation
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/
/usr/local/Cellar/make/4.2.1 (12 files, 957.3K) *
  Poured from bottle on 2016-08-11 at 20:18:41
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-dupes/blob/master/make.rb
==> Dependencies
Optional: guile ✘
==> Options
--with-default-names
        Do not prepend 'g' to the binary
--with-guile
        Build with guile support

Problem

Mac OS comes with make version 3.81 and I want a newer version (`>=4.0`) for use on some projects. How can I install a newer version, preferably using brew? That's related to GNU Make --output-sync doesn't work? as I want to use some feature output sync on parallel builds.

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