I have this in my .emacs:

(defun my-compile ()
  "This command is meant to step out of the include/src directories on
compilation. Useful for compiling projects without cd-ing to the correct
Makefile path."
  (interactive)
  (let ((last-directory default-directory))
    (if (string-match "\\(\/src\/\\|\/include\/\\)$" default-directory)
        (cd (replace-regexp-in-string "\\(\/src\/\\|\/include\/\\)$" "/"
default-directory)))
    (call-interactively 'compile)
    (cd last-directory)))

(define-key c++-mode-map (kbd "<f9>") 'my-compile)

Far from perfect, but it's a start and works very well for me.

Cheers
Bastian


On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:51:19 -0500
> > From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_Maniaci?= <stephane.maniaci@gmail.com>
> >
> > My project uses non-recursive Makefile, thus there is only (at the
> moment) a
> > single Makefile in my project root tree, that compiles (with Autotools)
> all
> > my sources files, located in the src/ directory.
> >
> > Now the problem is : when I'm editing my code and tries to compile it
> (M-x
> > compile), I have to use 'make -k -C ../', which works fine, but Emacs
> > doesn't know anymore which files contains error. When trying to move to
> last
> > error, it outputs this :
> >
> > Find this error in (default src/ease-about-dialog.vala):
> ~/build/ease/src/
> >
> > Does anyone have a workaround for this ?
>
> Switch to the buffer that visits your top-level Makefile, before
> typing "M-x compile".
>
>


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