Which package provides the "make" executable?

Question

I've tried https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html#make but it returns around 314 results spread across 20 pages so not very convenient.

I've also tried the stdenv package with no change in behavior.

Answer 1

I've found the following:

$ readlink $(which make)
/nix/store/qwl4psnv7qnbs69qhd5w2jfcp7a686vw-gnumake-4.2.90pre2491_48c8a11/bin/make

So the name of the package is gnumake. Package search reveals five packages of which four are GNU make.

nix repl on my NixOS 18.03 system shows:

$ nix repl
[...]
nix-repl> (import <nixpkgs> {}).gnumake
«derivation /nix/store/b1imiipjihl8k9n48smbvjpsjcjq0qfj-gnumake-4.2.1.drv»

With GitHub's search you can figure out where derivations named gnumake are defined, which is in pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/gnumake