colormake1

Usage

Overview

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.