Smart MAKe - Gmake reimplemented in Perl
Why:
Make is an intrinsically dumb batch-processing approach to building things, but Makefiles are common and easy to parse (for humans). I invariably end up making a perl wrapper at most places I work, so I'm saving myself some time by doing this.
The plan is to have smak be a drop-in replacement for 'make', but with extra features like interactive and scripted rule editing to avoid having to reconfigure builds created by auto-conf etc., and server farm awareness (LSF, slurm) for accelerated builds on large projects.
Also a persistent "server" mode so complex rule sets don't need to be re-parsed (think ClearCase).
Eventually a pool of smak job-servers should work together to handle fast development involving multiple projects, the main ones of interest here are:
libfuse iverilog ghdl nvc Trilinos Xyce ngspice (+ OpenVAF)
- which can be used together in "federated simulation" to fix various issues not addressed by any individual project.