remake¶

GNU make fork with improved error reporting and debugging

Modernized version of GNU make utility that adds improved error reporting, the ability to trace execution in a comprehensible way, and a debugger. Some of the features of the debugger are:

• see the target call stack
• set breakpoints on targets
• show and set variables
• execute arbitrary “make” code
• issue shell commands while stopped in the middle of execution
• inspect target descriptions
• write a file with the commands of the target expanded