Remake – GNU Make with comprehensible tracing and a debugger

remake is an enahanced version of GNU Make that adds improved error reporting, better tracing, profiling and a debugger.

The latest version is based off of the GNU Make 4.3 source, although versions are available based on 4.2.1, 4.1, and 3.82. We also have a some cool debuggers for: Python 3, Python 2, GNU Bash, Z Shell, Korn shell, Perl, and Node.js,

Excerpts

Example showing --tasks

Example showing --trace (short option -x )

Example showing --show-parent (short option -c )

Example showing --profile

Source Code

Videos

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