I have download source tarball of make from
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/
If I tried build (firsst ./configure, next make) I get
glob/libglob.a(glob.o): In function `glob':
/home/user/Downloads/make-4.2/glob/glob.c:581: undefined reference to `__alloca'
glob/libglob.a(glob.o):/home/user/Downloads/make-4.2/glob/glob.c:732: more undefined references to `__alloca' follow