cons

cons - 'Make' replacement

CONS is a replaceement for 'make.' It is not compatible with make, but it offers features not found in make or other build tools including:

integrated dependency analysis (no more "make depend" to generate static lists of .h files)
complete, non-recursive dependency analysis across multiple directories;
multiple side-by-side variant builds;
compilation from MD5 signatures instead of time stamps for determining whether a file is up-to-date
extensibility via Perl.

CONS is implemented in Perl. You don't need to know Perl to use CONS, although you can use it more powerfully if you do.

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.dsmit.com/cons/
Source tarball	http://www.dsmit.com/cons/

Version 2.2.0 (stable) released on 2000-11-27

Version 2.3.0 (devel) released on 2001-05-31

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.

This is a GNU package.

Documentation

User manual included; user manual available in HTML from http://www.dsmit.com/cons/stable/cons.html

Support contacts

Announce List	cons-discuss@gnu.org cons-discuss-request@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/cons-discuss
Help List	cons-discuss@gnu.org cons-discuss-request@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/cons-discuss
Developer List	cons-discuss@gnu.org cons-discuss-request@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/cons-discuss
Bug List	<bug-cons@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Rajesh Vaidheeswarran <rv@gnu.org>
Developers	Bob Sidebotham Rajesh Vaidheeswarran <rv@gnu.org> Steven Knight <knight@baldmt.com> et al.
Contributors	Numerous users.

Related information

Source repository	AnonCVS access from :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvs
Interfaces	command line
Source languages	Perl
Use requirements	Perl 5.002 or better, perl MD5 extension
Build prerequisites	Perl 5.002 or better, perl MD5 extension, GNU tar, gzip

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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