Projects tagged ‘configuration’

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 ... [More] domain-specific-language for describing library, header, and function dependencies of a project. It generates a shell script that can be run before building a package to customize the build to the system. [Less]

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 ... [More] makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your cour choice, such as GNU Make, Visual Studio, and Xcode. [Less]

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 ... [More] `pkg-config --libs --cflags glib-2.0` for instance, rather than hard-coding values on where to find glib (or other libraries). It is language-agnostic, so it can be used for defining the location of documentation tools, for instance. [Less]

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 ... [More] Python scripts that call the build engine API. It can scan files to detect dependencies automatically 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]

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

Fontconfig is a library for font customization and configuration.

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 ... [More] users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously discrete elements like packages, services, and 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]

eZ components is an enterprise ready general purpose PHP components library by eZ systems. As a collection of high quality independent building blocks for PHP application development eZ components ... [More] will both speed up development and reduce risks. An application can use one or more components effortlessly as they all adhere to the same naming conventions and follow the same structure. [Less]

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.

Facter is a cross-platform library for retrieving simple operating system facts, like operating system, linux distribution, or MAC address.