watch-make is a program which monitors Makefile dependencies and re-invokes
make when one changes. It's a bit like
guard,
nodemon,
or node-supervisor, but for
any project with a Makefile.
watch-make only works with GNU Make - it uses the --print-data-base option
to extract the dependency graph from a Makefile. It understands non-default
targets, subdirectories, recursive invocations of Makefiles, etc.
I've been using watch-make on a few of my own projects; watch-make test in
a terminal tucked in the corner is my usual working method. It also has a
reasonably complete test suite. I've only tried it on Mac OS X.
I want to make watch-make a generally usable tool.
watch-make is built in node.js. You'll have to check it out and put it in
your PATH. Then you can run watch-make foo bar wherever you would usually
run make foo bar.
An npm package and more extensive testing are obvious next steps.
Get in touch! You can follow me on Twitter at @andrewffff.
watch-make is published under the GNU General Public License, Version 2. See the file LICENSE.txt for more information.