Gentlemen;
   Forgive a newbie seeking instruction but I have a question about "running make".  I have been trying to install an upgrade of lilo to my system but have been stymied by "make".  The instructions for the upgrade write I should download the tar.gz file, extract it to a named directory, run make and then make install.  The first two steps are no problem.  It is the latter two.  It appears that I should simply type "make" and viola, a compiled program.  Rather I get errors such as "no target" etc.  I have read through the make.html page at gnu.org and the GNU Make Manual.  I understand what make is supposed to do, I just can't seem to get it to do it.  Are there more step by step instructions available? (Sorry for the hand holding request).  Any guidance or assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.  Thanx in advance.
 
Mathew Mandeltort

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