Source: jam Section: devel Priority: optional Maintainer: Yann Dirson Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), dh-buildinfo, docbook-to-man, bison Vcs-git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/jam.git Vcs-browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/jam Standards-Version: 4.4.1 Package: jam Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: Software-build tool, replacement for make Perforce's Jam (formerly called Jam/MR) is a powerful and highly customizable utility to build programs and other things, that can run on Un*x, Nt, VMS, OS/2 and Macintosh MPW, using portable Jamfiles. It can build large projects spread across many directories in one pass, and can run jobs in parallel where make would not. . It takes some time to fully grasp, especially when one's already accustomed to make(1), but there's no comparison in power when comparing these two tools. . Standard rules: - can automatically extract header dependencies for C/C++ (you can customize for you own language) - provide for automatic "clean", "install", "uninstall" rules, so that an automake-like tool is not needed