When I am installing a program with the make and make install method, there are (very often) many dependencies that need to be installed before the installation of the new program can begin. So currently, each time it gets to an error message that a dependency is missing, I install each of the dependencies manually. I can see that make's man page doesn't list any simple option to go ahead and automatically install dependencies, so I am wondering if there is a workaround or a script to make that happen? 
Can `make` automatically install dependencies?
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