diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/make/make-3.81/make_fix_for_automake-1.12.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/make/make-3.81/make_fix_for_automake-1.12.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9b2e964
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/make/make-3.81/make_fix_for_automake-1.12.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+automake 1.12 has depricated automatic de-ANSI-fication support
+
+this patch avoids these kinds of errors:
+
+| configure.in:48: error: automatic de-ANSI-fication support has been removed
+...
+| Makefile.am:19: error: automatic de-ANSI-fication support has been removed
+| autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
+| ERROR: autoreconf execution failed.
+
+
+Signed-Off-By: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
+2012/05/04
+
+Index: make-3.81/configure.in
+===================================================================
+--- make-3.81.orig/configure.in
++++ make-3.81/configure.in
+@@ -44,9 +44,6 @@ AC_AIX
+ AC_ISC_POSIX
+ AC_MINIX
+ 
+-# Needed for ansi2knr
+-AM_C_PROTOTYPES
+-
+ # Enable gettext, in "external" mode.
+ 
+ AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(0.14.1)
+Index: make-3.81/Makefile.am
+===================================================================
+--- make-3.81.orig/Makefile.am
++++ make-3.81/Makefile.am
+@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
+ # GNU Make; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free Software
+ # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ 
+-AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.8 dist-bzip2 check-news ansi2knr
++AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.8 dist-bzip2 check-news
+ ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS	=  -I config
+ 
+ MAKE_HOST =	@MAKE_HOST@
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/make/make-3.81/makeinfo.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/make/make-3.81/makeinfo.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5dd7604
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/make/make-3.81/makeinfo.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Allow docs to build with makeinfo 5.X, fixing the error:
+
+doc/make.texi:8165: @itemx must follow @item
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport
+
+RP
+2014/03/29
+
+Index: make-3.81/doc/make.texi
+===================================================================
+--- make-3.81.orig/doc/make.texi	2006-04-01 06:36:40.000000000 +0000
++++ make-3.81/doc/make.texi	2014-03-29 09:39:51.007727012 +0000
+@@ -8162,7 +8162,7 @@
+ rarely need to specify this option since @samp{make} does it for you;
+ see @ref{-w Option, ,The @samp{--print-directory} Option}.)
+ 
+-@itemx --no-print-directory
++@item --no-print-directory
+ @cindex @code{--no-print-directory}
+ Disable printing of the working directory under @code{-w}.
+ This option is useful when @code{-w} is turned on automatically,
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/make/make.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/make/make.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..57ea605
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/make/make.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+SUMMARY = "GNU tool that controls the build process"
+DESCRIPTION = "Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a \
+program from the program's source files.  Make gets its knowledge of how to build your program from a file \
+called the makefile, which lists each of the non-source files and how to compute it from other files."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/make/"
+SECTION = "devel"
+
+SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/make/make-${PV}.tar.bz2"
+
+inherit autotools gettext pkgconfig texinfo
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/make/make_3.81.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/make/make_3.81.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b8a79b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/make/make_3.81.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+PR = "r1"
+
+LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=361b6b837cad26c6900a926b62aada5f \
+                    file://tests/COPYING;md5=8ca43cbc842c2336e835926c2166c28b \
+                    file://glob/COPYING.LIB;md5=4a770b67e6be0f60da244beb2de0fce4"
+
+require make.inc
+
+SRC_URI += "file://make_fix_for_automake-1.12.patch"
+SRC_URI += "file://makeinfo.patch"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "354853e0b2da90c527e35aabb8d6f1e6"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "f3e69023771e23908f5d5592954d8271d3d6af09693cecfd29cee6fde8550dc8"
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/make/make_4.1.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/make/make_4.1.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a1b0d7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/make/make_4.1.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+LICENSE = "GPLv3 & LGPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
+                    file://tests/COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
+                    file://glob/COPYING.LIB;md5=4a770b67e6be0f60da244beb2de0fce4"
+require make.inc
+
+EXTRA_OECONF += "--without-guile"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "57a7a224a822f94789a587ccbcedff69"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "0bc7613389650ee6a24554b52572a272f7356164fd2c4132b0bcf13123e4fca5"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"