Checkmake: Experimental Linter/Analyzer for Makefiles

• checkmake

  5 1,003 0.0 Go

  experimental linter/analyzer for Makefiles

Unfortunately Checkmake only has 4 rules[0]. It's not a very useful tool unless you're wanting a tool that complains that you don't have an 'all' and 'test' target, or that your target is longer than 5 lines[1].

[0]: https://github.com/mrtazz/checkmake/tree/main/rules

[1]: https://github.com/mrtazz/checkmake/blob/main/rules/maxbodyl...

• make-audit

  3 4 10.0 Python

  Easy-to-use tool for auditing Makefiles for errors

Cool!

I also have an experimental (GNU) makefile auditor called "make-audit", available here: https://github.com/david-a-wheeler/make-audit

Per its README: "It will report when an execution of make reads or changes files in ways that are inconsistent with its Makefile. It requires an "auditor" tool named pmaudit in your PATH. It also requires GNU make to be installed and run as make."

Sadly, make-audit is also rather experimental. As I say in its README, "This is an extremely early version. Much needs fixing." For example:

* This doesn't properly handle grouped targets or empty commands. It should handle makefiles with their own SHELL and .ONESHELL values.

* I don't think it handles multi-line make commands exactly correctly (it's close but not quite right).

* Lots more options are needed.

* It needs a better internal test suite.

Still, make-audit does do some useful things, and it'd be awesome if others would be willing to work with me to make it reliably useful.

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• ShellCheck

  489 35,150 8.7 Haskell

  ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

Some discussion on that here:

https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/issues/58

The hadolint project does shell checking for Dockerfiles and it uses shellcheck:

https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint

So the approach is definitely feasible, but you do need a new project and probably it needs to be written in Haskell.

• hadolint

  25 9,793 7.3 Haskell

  Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

  

Some discussion on that here:

https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/issues/58

The hadolint project does shell checking for Dockerfiles and it uses shellcheck:

https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint

So the approach is definitely feasible, but you do need a new project and probably it needs to be written in Haskell.

Suggest a related project