Build is a massively-parallel software build system implemented on top of GNU make. In particular, build

• is not a make replacement
• is not written in Java
• does not use XML

Build was designed with the following tasks in mind:

• configuration
• building
• testing
• installation

Some of its features include:

• position-independent makefiles
• non-recursive multi-makefile include-based structure
• leaf makefiles are full-fledged GNU makefiles, not just variable definitions
• complete dependency graph
• inter-project dependency tracking
• extensible translator framework

License

Build is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

Related Projects

Depends:

• GNU make >= 3.81
• GNU bash >= 2.05a

Download

• build
• build NEWS
• build documentation

Who is Using build

• XSD/e - Validating XML Parser Generator for Embedded Systems
• XSD - XML Schema to C++ Data Binding Compiler
• libxsd-frontend - XML Schema Compiler Frontend
• libcult - Collection of C++ Libraries
• libfrontend-elements - Compiler Frontend Building Blocks in C++
• libbackend-elements - Compiler Backend Building Blocks in C++

Resources

• Recursive vs non-recursive makefile architecture benchmark.
• GNU make: custom up-to-date.
• GNU make: order-only prerequisites.
• make hacks