NAME¶

colormake - color wrapper for make(1)

SYNOPSIS¶

colormake [ --short ] ...

DESCRIPTION¶

colormake acts as a wrapper around make(1) to ease reading the output by colorizing it.

OPTIONS¶

The --short option instructs colormake to truncate lines so they do not wrap. All other options will be passed unmodified to make(1).

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).

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.

AUTHORS¶

Bjarni R. Einarsson is the author of colormake. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. This manual page was written by Joe Wreschnig <piman@sacredchao.net> and updated by Ludovic Rousseau <rousseau@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO¶

make(1), clmake(1)