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,

• Readthe Docs Remake Documentation

Excerpts

Example showing --tasks

Example showing --trace (short option -x)

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

Example showing --profile

The above output is displayed via KCachegrind.

Source Code

• Download the latest version
• Github page
• Sourceforge project
• Doxygen Source Code Documentation

Videos

• Short (14 minute) demo of introducing debugging Makefiles – part 1
• Using the debugger aspect of remake – part 2