Build-recorder

The purpose of this project is to fully record the interactions between assets (files and tools) when a software artifact is being built (compiled).

Usage

build-recorder [-o outfile] command

• outfile: The output file, by default "build-recorder.out".
• command: The original build command with all its arguments.
  • e.g. cc -o hello helloworld.c

Description

build-recorder is a command line tool for linux 5.3+ that records information about build processes. It achieves this by running transparently in the background while the build process is running, tracing it and extracting all relevant information, which it then stores in the output file in RDF Turtle format.

A complete schema for the generated RDF can be found in docs/output.md.

build-recorder works regardless of the programming language, build system or configuration used. In fact there is no limitation as to what the supplied command should be. If it runs, build-recorder can trace it.

Build

To build it you are going to need the following tools:

• A C compiler
• make

As well as the following libraries:

• libcrypto

  Build from github repository

  In order to build from the github repository directly, you are also going to need

• autoconf
• automake

On the project's top-level directory, run:

autoreconf -i
./configure
make

Build from release tarball

Assuming you've downloaded the tarball:

tar -xf <build-recorder-release>.tar.gz
cd <build-recorder-release>
./configure
make

License

The code is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later (LGPL-2.1-or-later).