Colorizes compiler output from make to increase visibility of compiler warnings and other messages among large amounts of text
Initial 'fork' from this stackoverflow post by Reza Toghraee
You've probably had this problem before: You have a C program with #warning messages that you have to compile a bunch of times and the warnings end up near the very top of 100+ lines of output, or worse yet, somewhere in the middle. You still want to see everything else, or just don't feel like piping it through grep umpteen times. Well makolr is definitely one out of a multitude of possible solutions! (Doesn't sound very convincing, I know)
Alternately, you want builders of your software to clealy see errors and warnings at compile time. makolr can be helpful here as well.
Advanced programmers can stop reading here. Really advanced programmers didn't need to read any of this at all. Yet more advanced programmers could have written this themselves. The most advanced programmers either already did, or have some other solution, or are just being lazy and want to leech off of this repo. WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
All that is required, aside from your favorite compiler, is bash, pearl, and make.
Clone or download a ZIP of this here repository, make sure makolr is executable and alias make to it. Just issue alias make=/path/to/makolr. You can also copy makolr somewhere into your system path and just run makolr instead of make. If you aren't sure where that is, issue echo $PATH into a terminal. To install systemwide, /usr/local/sbin is usually a good place. Drop it into ~/bin or ~/sbin if there are other users on the system and for some reason you don't want them using it.
The makolr script can be run from prettymuch anywhere and it's fine by me if you want to include it along with a software package. I do not care. Let me know if it helps you.