clmake(1)

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🌈 clmake(1) — the color wrapper bestie 💅

okay so real quick, this is the manual page for clmake, a General Commands Manual entry, and honestly? it's giving glow-up energy for your build output. let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

clmake — a color wrapper for make(1) and less(1) 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

clmake [ -f makefile ] [ option ] ...  target ...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so clmake is literally just a wrapper around make(1) that exists to make your life easier, because reading raw make output is a crime against the eyes, fr fr. it colorizes the output so it's actually readable 👑

and that's not all bestie — it also pipes that output straight into the less(1) text pager. so you get pretty colors AND paged output. main character energy, no cap 💅

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

here's the thing, and it's lowkey the best part:

  • clmake uses the same command line options as make(1) 🫶

that's it. that's the whole options section. iconic, honestly. you already know the flags, so go off 💜

🧚 USAGE 🧚

wanna make the switch? you have two whole options, and both are easy:

  • you can edit your makefile so it uses clmake instead. specifically, change the path at the top — the line that normally reads #!/usr/bin/make — so it reads #!/usr/bin/clmake instead. tiny little glow-up, huge payoff ✨
  • OR, alternately, whenever you'd normally type make while compiling programs, just type clmake instead. same vibe, better output, slay 💅

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Bjarni R. Einarsson is the author of clmake 🫶
  • this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. not me filling in the gaps 😭
  • this manual page was written by Joe Wreschnig <piman@sacredchao.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). periodt 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read those too, iykyk 📚

ok that's the whole page bestie, you're fully caught up. now go colorize something 🌈

and that's a wrap! this manual page is from the General Commands Manual, dated July 2nd, 2001 — yeah, she's vintage, but she still ate 💅🎀✨

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