bb: the awk build system

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ABOUT

bb demonstrates a working build system written in GNU awk, to organize build steps for awk projects.

EXAMPLE

$ cd example

$ ./bb
bzz bzz

$ ./bb help
Usage: bb [<task> [<task> [<task> ...]]]

Tasks:

* all
* help
* test

CONFIGURATION

Tasks are implemented with awk functions.

Task trees are implemented with functions that call other functions.

That's it.

REQUIREMENTS

• a UNIX environment with coreutils / base / macOS / WSL / etc.
• GNU awk 5+

SEE ALSO

• Inspiration from nobuild, a convention for C/C++ build systems
• bashate, a shell script style linter
• beltaloada, a guide to writing build systems for (POSIX) sh
• dale builds D projects
• Gradle, a build system for JVM projects
• jelly, a JSON task runner
• lake, a Lua task runner
• Leiningen + lein-exec, a Clojure task runner
• lichen, a sed task runner
• Mage, a task runner for Go projects
• mian, a task runner for (Chicken) Scheme Lisp
• npm, Grunt, Node.js task runners
• POSIX make, a task runner standard for C/C++ and various other software projects
• Rake, a task runner for Ruby projects
• Rebar3, a build system for Erlang projects
• rez builds C/C++ projects
• sbt, a build system for Scala projects
• Shake, a task runner for Haskell projects
• ShellCheck, a shell script linter with a rich collection of rules for promoting safer scripting
• slick, a linter to enforce stricter, unextended POSIX sh syntax compliance
• stank, a collection of POSIX-y shell script linters
• tinyrick for Rust projects
• yao, a task runner for Common LISP projects

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