haysclark / checkmake

experimental linter/analyzer for Makefiles

checkmake

Overview

checkmake is an experimental tool for linting and checking Makefiles. It may not do what you want it to.

Usage

% checkmake Makefile

% checkmake --help
checkmake.

Usage:
checkmake [--debug|--config=<configPath>] <makefile>
checkmake -h | --help
checkmake --version

Options:
-h --help               Show this screen.
--version               Show version.
--debug                 Enable debug mode
--config=<configPath>   Configuration file to read
--list-rules            List registered rules

% checkmake fixtures/missing_phony.make

      RULE                 DESCRIPTION             LINE NUMBER

  minphony        Missing required phony target    0
                  "all"
  minphony        Missing required phony target    0
                  "test"
  phonydeclared   Target "all" should be           18
                  declared PHONY.

Installation

There are packages for linux up on packagecloud.io but you can also just clone the repo and build the binary and man page yourself.

go get github.com/mrtazz/checkmake
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/mrtazz/checkmake
make

Inspiration

This is totally inspired by an idea by Dan Buch.