Color for make?

smOk3 · 10-15-2007, 03:17 AM

I have been doing a lot of compiling and kinda sick of looking at the white on black when compiling source. I was just wondering if there is a way to change all the code that is running across the screen when doing ./configure && make?

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 10-15-2007, 09:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smOk3

I have been doing a lot of compiling and kinda sick of looking at the white on black when compiling source. I was just wondering if there is a way to change all the code that is running across the screen when doing ./configure && make?

I don't know if this will work, but you can colourize your konsole with this command: export CLICOLOR="yes". To make it permenant just add it to your ~.bashrc file.

bigrigdriver · 10-15-2007, 11:33 AM

In KDE, when using the console, go to Settings - Schema and choose a different color scheme. I'd guess that gnome has something similar. I don't know about other desktop environments.

ghostdancer · 10-15-2007, 12:42 PM

I wrote a little perl script that wrap around standard make for creating colorful make. I do not know if there any other available tools that do this, but if you find mine is what you are looking for, you can use it:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
use IO::File;

my $cmd = "/usr/bin/make";

BEGIN:
{
	my $cmdargs = "";
	foreach my $opt (@ARGV){
		$cmdargs .= " " . $opt;
	}

	my $fh = new IO::File "$cmd $cmdargs |";

	while( <$fh> ){
		my $line = $_;

		chomp($line);

		ColorPrint($line);
	}

	$fh->close();
}

sub ColorPrint
{
	my $line = shift;

	my @data = split(/\s/, $line);

	foreach my $elem (@data){
		if( length($elem) == 0 ){
			next;
		}

		if ( $elem =~ /\.[c|h]/i ){
			print BOLD GREEN $elem, RESET;
		} elsif ( $elem =~ /\.[o|a]/i ){
			print BOLD RED $elem, RESET;
		} elsif ( $elem =~ /^\-/ ){
			print BOLD BLUE $elem, RESET;
		} elsif( ($elem) =~ /g?cc/i || $elem =~ /cp/i || 
			$elem =~ /rm/i || $elem =~ /install/i ||
			$elem =~ /make/ || $elem =~ /ld/i ||
			$elem =~ /ar/ ){
			print BOLD CYAN $elem, RESET;
		} else {
			print $elem;
		}

		print " ";
	}

	print "\n";
	return;
}

You need to install Term::ANSIColor if your perl does not have this module.

ghostdancer · 10-15-2007, 01:12 PM

I just found someone did what I did:

Colormake

This is using Perl as well.

frenchn00b · 10-15-2007, 01:19 PM

Debian Stable, repos:

Code:

apt-get install colormake

smOk3 · 10-18-2007, 04:49 AM

Awesome, thanks for the help.