diff --git a/SHA256SUMS.sources b/SHA256SUMS.sources
index b7a78c7..9d163a8 100644
--- a/SHA256SUMS.sources
+++ b/SHA256SUMS.sources
@@ -68,3 +68,4 @@ b10d7e9e354be72aee4e4911cf19dd27b5c527d4e7200857365b5fcdeea0dffb  bison-2.3.tar.
 0190f28cb155fedd22bf8558c3e8705eed9eacfb7ae29e7508d025a68eb90899  gnulib-b28236b.tar.gz
 9385f2c8c2ca8b1dc4a7c31903f1f8dc8f2ba867dc2a9e5c93012ed6b564e826  perl-5.10.1.tar.bz2
 54437ae4211867de7ad55723f68b94c29cb2f08a23f431e0bbbc9f34ee384f47  dist-3.5-236.tar.gz
+e40b8f018c1da64edd1cc9a6fce5fa63b2e707e404e20cad91fbae337c98a5b7  make-4.2.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/parts.rst b/parts.rst
index f4e5c5a..e8c4e1b 100644
--- a/parts.rst
+++ b/parts.rst
@@ -604,6 +604,15 @@ tar 1.34
 Newer tar has better support for decompressing .tar.bz2 and .tar.xz archives.
 It also deals better with modern tar archives with extra metadata.
 
+make 4.2.1
+==========
+
+A newer version of make built using autotools is much more reliable and is
+compiled using a modern C compiler and C library. This removes a couple of
+segfaults encountered later in the process and allows more modern make features
+to be used. We do not go for the latest because of the use of automake 1.16
+which we do not have yet.
+
 gmp 6.2.1
 =========
 
diff --git a/sysa/make-4.2.1/checksums b/sysa/make-4.2.1/checksums
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e663e90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysa/make-4.2.1/checksums
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+c52511b504311f960636173d825a985ac551f6254fb85dced27fdae74ee652c4  /after/bin/make
diff --git a/sysa/make-4.2.1/make-4.2.1.sh b/sysa/make-4.2.1/make-4.2.1.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..6bc919d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysa/make-4.2.1/make-4.2.1.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Andrius Štikonas <andrius@stikonas.eu>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+src_prepare() {
+    default
+
+    rm doc/make.info
+    touch doc/make.info
+
+    # We don't have autopoint from gettext yet
+    AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf -fi
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+    ./configure \
+        --prefix="${PREFIX}" \
+        --target=i386-unknown-linux-gnu \
+        --host=i386-unknown-linux-gnu \
+        --build=i386-unknown-linux-gnu \
+        --disable-nls
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+    make MAKEINFO="true"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+    make install MAKEINFO="true" DESTDIR="${DESTDIR}"
+}
diff --git a/sysa/make-4.2.1/patches/pkg-config.patch b/sysa/make-4.2.1/patches/pkg-config.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a30392e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysa/make-4.2.1/patches/pkg-config.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 fosslinux <fosslinux@aussies.space>
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+pkg-config is not yet avaliable.
+
+--- configure.ac	2021-04-21 17:02:44.864090500 +1000
++++ configure.ac	2021-04-21 17:03:31.468411937 +1000
+@@ -160,19 +160,9 @@
+ AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID
+ 
+ # See if the user wants to add (or not) GNU Guile support
+-PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG
+ AC_ARG_WITH([guile], [AS_HELP_STRING([--with-guile],
+             [Support GNU Guile for embedded scripting])])
+ 
+-# For some strange reason, at least on Ubuntu, each version of Guile
+-# comes with it's own PC file so we have to specify them as individual
+-# packages.  Ugh.
+-AS_IF([test "x$with_guile" != xno],
+-[ PKG_CHECK_MODULES([GUILE], [guile-2.0], [have_guile=yes],
+-  [PKG_CHECK_MODULES([GUILE], [guile-1.8], [have_guile=yes],
+-    [have_guile=no])])
+-])
+-
+ AS_IF([test "$have_guile" = yes],
+       [AC_DEFINE([HAVE_GUILE], [1], [Embed GNU Guile support])])
+ 
diff --git a/sysa/run2.sh b/sysa/run2.sh
index 94ff2fb..edd8a86 100755
--- a/sysa/run2.sh
+++ b/sysa/run2.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ build coreutils-8.32
 
 build tar-1.34
 
+build make-4.2.1
+
 build gmp-6.2.1
 
 build autoconf-archive-2021.02.19