# Install smake with Homebrew, MacPorts, zypper

Portable make program with automake features. Version 2024-03-21 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-16. Also installable with zypper: sudo zypper install smake.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:smake
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install smake
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install smake
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: devel/smake/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install smake
```

  Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: smake from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:smake
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2024-03-21
- **Source summary:** Portable make program with automake features
- **Homepage:** <https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-16T12:50:33Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- smake (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2024-03-21
## Project history and usage

smake is Schily make, a portable make implementation with automake-style features. It is distributed today as part of the schilytools collection.

### Project history

The smake man page carries J. Schilling copyright history beginning in 1985 and describes a make-compatible tool with additional automake features for portable, layered makefiles. The schilytools README describes the current project as a continuation of tools originally written or managed by J. Schilling, preserving compatibility and portability while accepting fixes and suitable new work.

### Adoption history

The schilytools compilation documentation says smake is the preferred make program for the Schily makefile system and that the makefile system was introduced in 1993. The supplied package metadata lists Homebrew, MacPorts, and zypper package names, reflecting use by Unix package builders and ports systems that need portable build tooling.

### How it is used

smake reads SMakefile, Makefile, or makefile, executes dependency-driven build rules, and propagates command-line macros through MAKEFLAGS. In schilytools itself, it is both a build tool and part of the bootstrap story for the larger source tree.

### Why package nerds care

Package maintainers care about smake because it preserves a non-GNU make lineage used by portable Unix software. It also exposes how historical build systems, bootstrap constraints, and make dialects still shape package recipes.

### Timeline

- 1985: smake copyright history begins in the man page.
- 1993: Schily makefile system introduced according to README.compile.
- 2022: schilytools Codeberg repository created.
- 2024: schilytools 2024-03-21 release published on Codeberg.

### Related projects

- smake is related to SunPro make, GNU make, Schily makefilesystem, schilytools, cdrecord, mkisofs, star, and other historical Unix build and packaging tools.

### Sources

- <https://codeberg.org/api/v1/repos/schilytools/schilytools>
- <https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools>
- <https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/src/branch/master/README>
- <https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/src/branch/master/README.compile>
- <https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/src/branch/master/smake/smake.1>
- input.source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for smake. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Other Package-Manager Records

- zypper - smake - 2024.03.21-53.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: smake from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | The Schily "make" program | https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools
- MacPorts - smake: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/smake/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/smake.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/smake.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph