title: Error: not found: make
body: <p>I can't install any packages that requires <code>node-gyp</code>. The error message goes like this</p>
  
  <pre>
  $ npm install node-protobuf
  info trying registry request attempt 1 at 22:43:57
  http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/node-protobuf
  http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/node-protobuf
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/node-protobuf/-/node-protobuf-1.0.8.tgz
  npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/node-protobuf/-/node-protobuf-1.0.8.tgz
  
  > node-protobuf@1.0.8 install /home/whs/node_modules/node-protobuf
  > node-gyp rebuild
  
  gyp ERR! build error
  gyp ERR! stack Error: not found: make
  gyp ERR! stack     at F (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:43:28)
  gyp ERR! stack     at E (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:46:29)
  gyp ERR! stack     at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:57:16
  gyp ERR! stack     at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)
  gyp ERR! System Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64
  gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
  gyp ERR! cwd /home/whs/node_modules/node-protobuf
  gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.22
  gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.12.1
  gyp ERR! not ok
  npm ERR! node-protobuf@1.0.8 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
  npm ERR! Exit status 1
  npm ERR!
  npm ERR! Failed at the node-protobuf@1.0.8 install script.
  npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the node-protobuf package,
  npm ERR! not with npm itself.
  npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
  npm ERR!     node-gyp rebuild
  npm ERR! You can get their info via:
  npm ERR!     npm owner ls node-protobuf
  npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
  
  npm ERR! System Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64
  npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "node-protobuf"
  npm ERR! cwd /home/whs/
  npm ERR! node -v v0.10.22
  npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.15
  npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
  npm ERR!
  npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
  npm ERR!     /home/whs/npm-debug.log
  npm ERR! not ok code 0
  </pre>
  
  <p>I also tried the <code>protobuf</code> package and got the exact same result.</p>
  
  <p>Most search result says that this error is from missing <code>make</code> but in my case I have make installed. The node installation is even built from source manually on the machine.</p>
  
  <p>Additional info:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Path: <code>/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games</code></li>
  <li>Make: GNU Make 3.81 installed in <code>/usr/bin/make</code> (from official Debian package)</li>
  <li>Distro: Debian 6.0.8</li>
  <li>Arch: amd64</li>
  <li>Build-essential package: installed</li>
  <li>Node: Manually built from source</li>
  <li>Installation of non-gyp packages: work normally</li>
  </ul>