Projects

GNU Autoconf

GNU Autoconf is part of the GNU Build System. GNU Autoconf is a heavily used portability-enabling tool for UNIX-like systems, especially in free software projects. It is a compiler for a domain-specific-language for describing library, header, and function dependencies of a project. It ... [More] generates a shell script that can be run before building a package to customize the build to the system. [Less]

CMake

CMake is a cross-platform, open-source build system. It is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files. CMake generates native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice, such as GNU Make, Visual Studio, and Xcode.

pkg-config

pkg-config is a helper tool used when compiling applications and libraries. It helps you insert the correct compiler options on the command line so an application can use gcc -o test test.c `pkg-config --libs --cflags glib-2.0` for instance, rather than hard-coding values on where to find glib (or ... [More] other libraries). It is language-agnostic, so it can be used for defining the location of documentation tools, for instance. [Less]

SCons - a Software Construction tool

SCons is a software construction tool (build tool substitute for Make) implemented in Python. It features a modular build engine that can be embedded in other software. SCons configuration files are Python scripts that call the build engine API. It can scan files to detect dependencies automatically ... [More] and maintain a global view of all dependencies in a build tree, and uses MD5 signatures to detect changed file contents reliably. Timestamps can be used if you prefer. SCons also supports parallel builds and is easily extensible through user-defined builder and scanner objects. [Less]

FreeBSD Ports

The FreeBSD Ports and Packages collection is used to install and manage software on the FreeBSD operating system.

Puppet

Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously discrete elements like packages, services, and ... [More] files. Puppet's simple declarative specification language provides powerful classing abilities for drawing out the similarities between hosts while allowing them to be as specific as necessary, and it handles dependency and prerequisite relationships between objects clearly and explicitly. [Less]

fontconfig

Fontconfig is a library for font customization and configuration.

Apache Zeta Components (eZ Components)

claimed by Apache Software Foundation

Apache Zeta Components are a high quality, general purpose library of loosely coupled components for the development of applications based on PHP5. Beside typical modules for web application development like a template engine, database tools and an MVC component, Apache Zeta Components contain ... [More] command line tools, a chart rendering library, a WebDAV server, a universal document conversion component and more tools to ease developers' lives. Apache Zeta Components was originally developed by eZ Systems under the name "eZ Components" and was sponsored to the Apache Software Foundation for further development. Since 7/2010 the components have been known as "Apache Zeta Components." eZ Systems still builds their core products on top of Apache Zeta Components and contributes to the project. [Less]

Chef

Chef is a systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.

portupgrade

Portupgrade (aka pkgtools) is a tool set for working with FreeBSD ports and packages. It enhances abilities of the system tools and adds many new ones.