buildc is a command line front end for the BuildSystemGenerator() class. buildc BuildSystemGenerator() provide a pure-Python build system orchestration tool that resolves orders dependency graphs between and attempts to run build processes as concurrently as possible.
See Buildcloth Tutorials for examples of Buildcloth use.
Specify the name of a file to write the full log of Buildcloth activity. This log is verbose, (i.e. it includes INFO messages).
Increase the logging verbosity to include all DEBUG messages. You may specify --log to write these messages to a log file.
Specify the number of worker processes to run. Defualts to the numer of CPU threads/processes on the system. These processes are individual Python multiprocessing processes used at the top level of the build system. Your build system process may define or enable concurrency at different levels.
Defaults to native execution using a BuildSystem() build tool generated using BuildSystemGenerator(). You may also specify <make> to use buildc as a metabuild tool, which generates a file named Makefile using the same input as other build systems.
The entry point to the Makefile is not necessarily defined.
Specify the filename of a buildc specification file.
Acceptable file extensions are: .yaml, .yml, and .json. Extensions must match file type.
Defaults to buildc.yaml in the current directory.
You may specify --file multiple times.
Specify the method to test if a target needs to be rebuilt. Defaults to comparing the mtime of the dependency and the target. Specify force to unconditionally rebuild all targets or ignore to rebuild no targets.
Optional. A list of stages or targets in the build system to run. If you specify one stage, buildc builds only that stage and its specified dependencies. If you specify multiple stages, , buildc compiles the build system and then runs all build stages (or targets) that precede the specified stage that appears latest in the build sequence.
If you specify no stages buildc runs all specified stages.