Jam

'Jam' is a 'make' replacement that runs on over 50 platforms; most Jamfiles are themselves portable. Because Jam understands C/C++ dependencies, you need not declare header or object files. The built-in Jam rule "Main" handles header file dependencies and object files both automatically and on-the-fly.

Before any targets are updated, Jam gathers complete dependency information for C/C++ source files. This lets Jam build as much as possible, instead of stopping on the first build error, avoid building targets if targets on which they depend fail to build, and build across parallel paths with multiple, concurrent processes.

Last updated 20 Aug, 2004


User level: Submit a level

User Rating:

Homepage

License(s) :

BSD_2Clause

Rate it!

 

About

Leadership
Related Projects

make

Versions

2.5

2.5 stable released 2004-08-20

  • Released: 20 Aug, 2004
  • Code Maturity: Stable
  • Source Archive: ftp://ftp.perforce.com/pub/jam/jam-2.5.tar
  • Licenses: BSD_2Clause
  • Interfaces: Command Line

User Community and Support

User tutorial available in PDF format from http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conf2001/wingerd/WPLaura.pdf; User manpage available in HTML format from http://public.perforce.com/public/jam/src/Jam.html; User guide available in HTML format from http://public.perforce.com/public/jam/src/Jamfile.html

General Resources
Support Resources

Development

Developer Resources
Bug Tracking Resources
 

Please send comments on these web pages to bug-directory@fsf.org, send other questions to info@fsf.org.

Copyright © 2000 - 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA

The copyright licensing notice below applies to this text. Any software described in this text has its own copyright notice and license, which can usually be found in the distribution itself.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts.