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)

                                                 July 2nd, 2001                                     colormake(1)