From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Compiling C++ in Emacs (read Compiling and Testing...) Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:35:30 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <11b141710608021606k479d494buea3554302987457e@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154612488 8039 80.91.229.2 (3 Aug 2006 13:41:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 13:41:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 03 15:41:27 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8dRv-0008JL-Tn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:41:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8dRv-00023r-Am for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:41:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G8dQx-0001GA-MX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:40:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G8dQv-0001F1-Ku for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:40:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8dQv-0001Eh-8P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:40:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G8dUG-0002oU-63 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:43:44 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G8dQg-00085m-Eo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:40:02 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:40:02 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:40:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) In-Reply-To: <11b141710608021606k479d494buea3554302987457e@mail.gmail.com> 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:36439 Archived-At: Paulo J. Matos wrote: > I'm probably missing something. I have a dir: software/prog/ where I > have a Makefile and some sources managed by autotools (which generate > the Makefile). > Then I have software/prog-build, where I run: ../prog/configure ... etc. > This way I'm editing in software/prog and running make in > software/prog-build. > > My guess is if I do M-x compile, make will run in software/prog where > there is not any makefile, because after all, there's where the file > is being edited. Above, you said software/prog is where the Makefile resides. > How can I pass the directory where the make command should be run? M-x compile RET C-a C-k cd /directory/to/run/in && make target -- Kevin