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Package: jam (2.5rel-1)

Software-build tool, replacement for make

Perforce's Jam (formerly called Jam/MR) is a powerful and highly customizable utility to build programs and other things, that can run on Un*x, Nt, VMS, OS/2 and Macintosh MPW, using portable Jamfiles. It can build large projects spread across many directories in one pass, and can run jobs in parallel where make would not.

It takes some time to fully apprehend, especially when one's already accustomed to make(1), but there's no comparison in power when comparing these two tools.

Standard rules: 

 - can automatically extract header dependencies for C/C++ (you can
customize for you own language) 
 - provide for automatic "clean", "install", "uninstall" rules,
so that an automake-like tool is not needed

Tags: Software Development: Build Tool, User Interface: Command Line, Role: Program, Scope: Utility, Works with: Source Code

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  • dep: libc0.3 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4) [hurd-i386]
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    also a virtual package provided by libc0.3-udeb
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4) [hppa, i386, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc]
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    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1) [amd64]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.5) [armel, avr32]
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4) [alpha, ia64]
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    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
  • dep: libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4.1-3) [mips]
    GCC support library

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Download for all available architectures
Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
alpha 114.7 kB372 kB [list of files]
amd64 112.3 kB360 kB [list of files]
armel 108.4 kB344 kB [list of files]
avr32 (unofficial port) 108.7 kB344 kB [list of files]
hppa 112.7 kB352 kB [list of files]
hurd-i386 106.5 kB344 kB [list of files]
i386 106.5 kB344 kB [list of files]
ia64 124.0 kB416 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-amd64 111.4 kB294 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-i386 110.2 kB280 kB [list of files]
m68k (unofficial port) 105.0 kB332 kB [list of files]
mips 111.9 kB384 kB [list of files]
mipsel 111.8 kB384 kB [list of files]
powerpc 109.3 kB348 kB [list of files]
s390 110.7 kB352 kB [list of files]
sparc 108.1 kB348 kB [list of files]