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cons
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.
Last updated 29 Jul, 2005
About
Leadership
- Rajesh Vaidheeswarran - Maintainer
- Numerous users. - Contributor
Requirements
- Perl 5.002 or better (Use Requirement)
- perl MD5 extension (Use Requirement)
- Perl 5.002 or better (Build Prerequisite)
- perl MD5 extension (Build Prerequisite)
- GNU tar (Build Prerequisite)
- gzip (Build Prerequisite)
Related Projects
Versions
2.3.0
2.3.0 devel released 2001-05-31
- Released: 31 May, 2001
- Code Maturity: Developmental
2.2.0
2.2.0 stable released 2000-11-27
- Released: 27 Nov, 2000
- Code Maturity: Stable
- Source Archive: http://www.dsmit.com/cons/
- Licenses: GPLv2
- Interfaces: Command Line
User Community and Support
User manual included; user manual available in HTML from http://www.dsmit.com/cons/stable/cons.html