breakable

Write your build system in a real programming language.

Build Systems are complicated

Autotools and CMake use obscure Macro languages that compile to Makefiles (or, in the case of autotools, it compiles to a bash file that then generates Makefiles). That's all fine except when it comes to debugging them. If your build system is other than non-trivial, you will have to debug it at some point, and that can be painful.

Using Breakable

Download the latest breakable.py and drop it directly into your application:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robertdfrench/break/master/breakable.py && chmod +x breakable.py

It's LGPL, so feel free to redistribute as part of another project (that is the intended use). Then you write a Breakfile.py which exposes a BreakTasks class. Each public method on this class is treated as an entrypoint.

If you have defined clean and test as methods in your BreakTasks class, you can rebuild your project like so:

$ ./breakable.py -t clean
$ ./breakable.py -t test

To list other entrypoints, run ./breakable.py -l

Getting the latest copy

Who has time to run around with outdated build software?

$ ./breakable.py -u
# Overwriting your old-ass breakable.py with the latest copy
# Be sure to include these changes in your next commit!

Eating my own dogfood

Breakable builds and tests itself. Take a look at the Breakfile.py in this directory.