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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
Cc: dmitry@gutov.dev, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Project out of sources compilation
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 19:38:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y1ag4v3r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pvii3ssiwwfvnsbbvuhvhlendfc7r7i2cydnqi4x5c2xu6dv23@tb6d7yw6er3o> (message from Ergus on Sun, 17 Mar 2024 18:33:21 +0100)

> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 18:33:21 +0100
> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> Cc: dmitry@gutov.dev, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> >Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't the build tree just one more
> >tree that is part of the project?  If so, can't you use
> >project-external-roots to add this tree to the project?  I thought
> >this was the mechanism to add trees to a project as included in the
> >original design of project.el and its support in Emacs?
> >
> 
> >> There is also some need for a 'bin' dir, that is, where the final executable will reside, useful to execute and debug with tools like gud and independent from 'build'...  For example in a python project this may be the project root OR where the file with __main__ resides, but a python project usually won't specify a build dir. But let's go for one thing at a time.
> >
> >Likewise here.
> >
> >Or what am I missing?
> 
> Hi Eli:
> 
> More or less we have it, that's why I said that there was just some
> (small) missing pieces.
> 
> We have the `project-external-roots`, but project.el uses them only to
> find files and regexps. So it looks like they are intended to be source
> places somehow.
> 
> The compile or debug programs doesn't know that they are intended to
> execute there.
> 
> However, a `build` or `bin` are different because they are where the
> `compile` or `gud` are intended to run; generally not a place to search
> for sources (unless the source is generated like config.h).

Are you saying that "M-x compile" and "M-x gdb" are not (yet)
supported by project.el?



  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-17 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4wwljrdnra3bsloehioa46y24ozxajajmvf2elvskxxq3mhtg2.ref@pyv2z5snot6h>
2024-03-16 13:12 ` Project out of sources compilation Ergus
2024-03-16 16:50   ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2024-03-16 19:00     ` Ergus
2024-03-16 20:56       ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2024-03-17  2:53   ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-03-17  7:22     ` Ergus
2024-03-17  8:45       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-17 17:33         ` Ergus
2024-03-17 17:38           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-03-17 17:58             ` Ergus
2024-03-17 11:36   ` Augusto Stoffel
2024-03-17 17:47     ` Ergus
2024-03-19 18:36       ` Ergus
2024-03-27 16:38         ` [PATCH] " Ergus
2024-03-31  2:41           ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-03-31 21:07             ` Ergus
2024-04-01  7:49               ` Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2024-04-01 13:52                 ` Ergus
2024-04-01 15:09                   ` Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2024-04-01 17:18                     ` Ergus
2024-04-02 23:23                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-04-03 19:47                     ` Ergus
2024-04-06  2:05                     ` Ergus
2024-04-14  1:44                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-04-16 14:56                         ` Ergus
2024-04-22 17:05                         ` Ergus
2024-04-22 18:48                           ` Ergus
2024-04-22 21:20                             ` Mohsin Kaleem
2024-04-23 15:17                               ` Ergus
2024-04-23 19:26                                 ` Mohsin Kaleem
2024-04-26  0:47                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-04-02 21:39               ` Richard Stallman
2024-04-02 22:43                 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2024-04-05 21:40                   ` Richard Stallman
2024-04-03 10:40                 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2024-04-03 11:45                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-03 13:31                     ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2024-04-03 14:11                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-03 15:00                         ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2024-04-03 15:47                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-03 17:27                             ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2024-04-03 18:22                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-03 19:08                                 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2024-04-03 20:12                                   ` Ergus
2024-04-04  5:26                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-04  9:59                                       ` Ergus
2024-04-04 11:59                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-04 12:34                                           ` Ergus
2024-04-04 13:02                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-04 14:27                                               ` Ergus
2024-04-04 14:41                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-04 18:15                                                   ` Ergus
2024-04-04 18:56                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-04 20:16                                                   ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2024-04-05  5:11                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-04  5:07                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                               ` <87jzlefgi9.fsf@dick>
2024-04-03 18:44                                 ` Konstantin Kharlamov

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