From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Let compilation start in one directory below current one Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:44:10 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1224751801.582307@arno.fh-trier.de> References: <8e2e1f23-1bd1-4e4b-b063-4078aa0f079f@v72g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224754891 15354 80.91.229.12 (23 Oct 2008 09:41:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:41:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 23 11:42:32 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kswi6-0003Zf-T5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:42:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53805 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kswh1-0006LE-Ay for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:41:23 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.n-ix.net!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1224751826 9750 143.93.54.11 (23 Oct 2008 08:50:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:50:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-216-212.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163717 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59058 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers wrote: > stephan.zimmer wrote: >> I would like to start my compilation in one directory deeper than the >> current. Unfortunately, a local variable specification as >> >> % -*- ... compile-directory: (concat default-directory ".."); ... -*- >> >> is not working. Does anyone has an idea (except adding "cd.." to the >> compile command)? > > There is no such variable defined or referenced in compile.el. > > As far as I know, setting compile-command to "cd .." first is the right > way to do it. > defun my-compilation-process-setup-function ... if boundp compile-directory setq compile-command ( concat "cd " compile-directory "; " .... ? -ap Ps: Due to the economic crisis I am out of parentheses.