[Bug 30735] Re: colormake should replace default make

manu manuellopezibanez at yahoo.es
Sun Nov 8 11:33:27 UTC 2009


By "replacing", I meant "taking the steps necessary so the output of
make shown to the user is colorised". That is exactly what your
suggestion does. It seems to me a pointless step to force users to
figure out how to do this additional step (properly!), when there is a
package management system that is able to install everything that is
needed to make it work out-of-the-box. On the other hand, in this
particular case, I guess that if you know what 'make' is you should know
what 'alias' is.

In any case, my .bashrc contains, which works with or without colormake
installed.

# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
if [ "$TERM" != "dumb" ] && [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
    eval "`dircolors -b`"
    alias ls='ls --color=auto'
    alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'
    alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long'

    alias grep='grep --color=auto'
    alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
    alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
    if [ -x /usr/bin/colormake ]; then
        alias make='colormake'
    fi
    if [ -x /usr/bin/colordiff ]; then
        alias diff='colordiff'
    fi

fi

So, this bug does not affect me anymore, and I personally do not care
much if you close/reject it (and bug 30734).

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colormake should replace default make
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/30735
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