Provided by: colormake_0.9-1_all 
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)