Remake – GNU Make with comprehensible tracing and a debugger

remake is a patched version of GNU Make that adds improved error reporting, the ability to trace execution in a comprehensible way, and a debugger.

The latest version is based off of the GNU Make 3.82 source. We also have a some cool debuggers for Ruby 1.9, Ruby 1.8 (Rubinius), Python, GNU Bash, Z-Shell, and K-Shell.

• GNU Make Debugger Documentation online

Source Code

• Download the latest version
• Github page
• Sourceforge project

Excerpts

• Short (14 minute) demo of introducing debugging Makefiles
• A list of remake features
• Screenshot of remake under DDD