cxref(1)

💖 cxref-cc — the girlies' guide 💖

okay so this is cxref(1) from the General Commands Manual, bestie, and honestly? it's giving ✨developer tooling✨ and I'm obsessed. sit down, grab a boba, let's get into it 🧋

✨ NAME ✨

cxref-cc — compile and document/cross-reference a C source file 💅

like. it does both. the multitasking queen 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cxref-cc filename  [ CC-arguments ... ]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. a filename and then whatever CC-arguments you feel like throwing at it 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so cxref-cc is a front-end shell script interface to the cxref C-language documentation and cross-referencing program 💖 literally just a cute little wrapper, a lil agent, a middle-manager of the Unix world fr fr.

here's the order of operations, bestie, pay attention 📝:

1. the script runs the C compiler first on filename, applying any compiler options you handed over as CC-arguments 🛠️
2. if the compilation succeeds — and only if, no cap — then cxref gets run on filename 🎉

and where do the options for the cxref program come from, you ask? 👀 from the special file called .cxref in the current working directory. that's the plug, that's the source of truth 🫡

⚠️ okay so this part is lowkey serious: that .cxref file must exist for the script to complete successfully. no .cxref file, no completion. the script will simply not slay. consider yourself warned 💀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• cxref(1)
• cxref-query(1)

go read those too, they're the extended universe 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system — but bestie, it may be used by others 🫶 so like, don't feel excluded, it's for everyone 💜

and that's the whole page, my love ✨ this one landed March 3, 2002, so yes it's vintage, yes it's still iconic, we stan a retro Debian baddie 🎀💖 bye bestie, go cross-reference something 🦋