colormake - color wrapper for make(1)
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Description
colormake acts as a wrapper around make(1) to ease reading the output by colorizing it.
Files
The configuration files are Perl scripts included by colormake.pl. The defaults values are (from
colormake.pl itself):
# Some useful color codes, see end of file for more.
#
$col_black = "\033[30m";
$col_red = "\033[31m";
$col_green = "\033[32m";
$col_yellow = "\033[33m";
$col_blue = "\033[34m";
$col_magenta = "\033[35m";
$col_cyan = "\033[36m";
$col_ltgray = "\033[37m";
$col_norm = "\033[00m";
$col_background = "\033[07m";
$col_brighten = "\033[01m";
$col_underline = "\033[04m";
$col_blink = "\033[05m";
# Customize colors here...
#
$col_default = $col_ltgray;
$col_gcc = $col_magenta . $col_brighten;
$col_make = $col_cyan;
$col_filename = $col_yellow;
$col_linenum = $col_cyan;
$col_trace = $col_yellow;
$col_warning = $col_green;
$tag_error = "";
$col_error = $tag_error . $col_yellow . $col_brighten;
$error_highlight = $col_brighten;
For use with gnome-terminal I have the following configuration in my $HOME/.colormakerc file:
$col_default = $col_black;
$col_gcc = $col_magenta;
$col_filename = $col_blue;
$col_linenum = $col_cyan;
$col_error = $tag_error . $col_red . $col_brighten;
/usr/share/colormake/colormake.rc
System-wide configuration file for colormake.
$HOME/.colormakerc
Personal configuration file for colormake.
History
/usr/bin/colormake was formerly named /usr/bin/cmake but had to be renamed because of a name clash.
Name
colormake - color wrapper for make(1)
Options
The --short option instructs colormake to truncate lines so they do not wrap. All other options will be
passed unmodified to make(1).
See Also
make(1), clmake(1) July 2nd, 2001 colormake(1)
Synopsis
colormake [ --short ] ...
Usage
To change a makefile to use colormake, you may change the path at the top which normally reads
#!/usr/bin/make to #!/usr/bin/colormake.
Alternately, you may type colormake whenever you would normally type make when compiling programs.
Colormake is also available using the alternate names which enable piping through less (clmake),
truncated output so lines do not wrap (colormake-short), or both (clmake-short).
