---
name: "colormake-short"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "colormake"
version: "0.9.20140504-5"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/colormake"
---

# colormake-short(1)

color wrapper for make(1)

Part of [colormake(1)](/colormake/1.md).

## NAME

colormake - color wrapper for [make(1)](/make/1.md)

## SYNOPSIS

**colormake** \[ --short \] ...

## DESCRIPTION

colormake acts as a wrapper around [make(1)](/make/1.md) to ease reading the output by colorizing it.

## OPTIONS

The --short option instructs colormake to truncate lines so they do not wrap. All other options will be passed unmodified to [**make**(1)](/make/1.md).

## USAGE

To change a makefile to use colormake, you may change the path at the top which normally reads **#!/usr/bin/make** to **#!/usr/bin/colormake**.

Alternately, you may type **colormake** whenever you would normally type **make** when compiling programs.

Colormake is also available using the alternate names which enable piping through less (**clmake**), truncated output so lines do not wrap (**colormake-short**), or both (**clmake-short**).

## FILES

The configuration files are Perl scripts included by **colormake.pl**. The defaults values are (from **colormake.pl** itself):

```
# Some useful color codes, see end of file for more.
#
$col_black =        "\033[30m";
$col_red =          "\033[31m";
$col_green =        "\033[32m";
$col_yellow =       "\033[33m";
$col_blue =         "\033[34m";
$col_magenta =      "\033[35m";
$col_cyan =         "\033[36m";
$col_ltgray =       "\033[37m";
$col_norm =         "\033[00m";
$col_background =   "\033[07m";
$col_brighten =     "\033[01m";
$col_underline =    "\033[04m";
$col_blink =        "\033[05m";
# Customize colors here...
#
$col_default =      $col_ltgray;
$col_gcc =          $col_magenta . $col_brighten;
$col_make =         $col_cyan;
$col_filename =     $col_yellow;
$col_linenum =      $col_cyan;
$col_trace =        $col_yellow;
$col_warning =      $col_green;
$tag_error =        "";
$col_error =        $tag_error . $col_yellow . $col_brighten;
$error_highlight =  $col_brighten;
```

For use with gnome-terminal I have the following configuration in my  *$HOME/.colormakerc* file:

```
$col_default =      $col_black;
$col_gcc =          $col_magenta;
$col_filename =     $col_blue;
$col_linenum =      $col_cyan;
$col_error =        $tag_error . $col_red . $col_brighten;
```

- */usr/share/colormake/colormake.rc*

  System-wide configuration file for colormake.

- *$HOME/.colormakerc*

  Personal configuration file for colormake.

## HISTORY

/usr/bin/colormake was formerly named /usr/bin/cmake but had to be renamed because of a name clash.

## AUTHORS

Bjarni R. Einarsson is the author of colormake.

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

This manual page was written by Joe Wreschnig \<piman@sacredchao.net\> and updated by Ludovic Rousseau \<rousseau@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

## SEE ALSO

[**make**(1)](/make/1.md), [**clmake**(1)](/clmake/1.md)