Bug#411174: ITP: remake -- GNU make fork with improved error reporting and debugging

[Alan Woodland <awoodland@debian.org>]

Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
> 
> * Package name    : remake
>   Version         : 3.80+dbg0.61
>   Upstream Author : Rocky Bernstein <rocky@panix.com>
> * URL             : http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/remake/
> * License         : GPL
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : GNU make fork with improved error reporting and debugging
> 
>  Modernized version of GNU make utility that adds improved error
>  reporting, the ability to trace execution in a comprehensible way, and a
>  debugger. Some of the features of the debugger are:
>   * see the target call stack
>   * set breakpoints on targets
>   * show and set variables
>   * execute arbitrary "make" code
>   * issue shell commands while stopped in the middle of execution
>   * inspect target descriptions
>   * write a file with the commands of the target expanded
>  .
>   Homepage: http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/remake/
Sounds like that could be most useful to have around :-)

Alan