Furthermore, this simple patch to configure/RULES_BUILD appears to produce IDE compatible compiler output, which appears to be an improvement, from my perspective.
@@ -210,15 +210,15 @@
%$(OBJ): %.c
@$(RM) $@
- $(COMPILE.c) -c $<
+ $(COMPILE.c) -c $(realpath $<)
%$(OBJ): %.cc
@$(RM) $@
- $(COMPILE.cpp) -c $<
+ $(COMPILE.cpp) -c $(realpath $<)
%$(OBJ): %.cpp
@$(RM) $@
- $(COMPILE.cpp) -c $<
+ $(COMPILE.cpp) -c $(realpath $<)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:tech-talk-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Hill, Jeff
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 12:09 PM
> To: Tech Talk ([email protected])
> Subject: using the EPICS build system with an IDE
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have noticed over the years that the EPICS build system isn't particularly
> helpful when using an IDE because it doesn't generate full source file paths on
> the compiler command line, and instead subdirectory dependent relative
> paths are used. This seems to cause gcc to produce also relative source file
> paths in its compiler messages which can interfere with clicking on the error
> message and vectoring the focus to the appropriate source file in the IDE. It
> seems that gcc could easily provide an option to force generation of full (not
> relative) source file paths in its output no matter what the format is of its
> input file paths might be, but AFAIKT, it doesn't.
>
> However, maybe this post suggests a solution that could be applied
> generically within the internals of the EPICS build system to produce full path
> names in the compilers input while continuing to navigate the build system
> with relative paths.
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2008-03/msg00084.html
>
> This would result in rather more verbose build message output, but would
> improve productivity when using an IDE from my perspective. I suppose that
> we might also provide a configure option which determines the type of
> compiler file path output that gets generated depending on a particular user's
> needs, if that was important.
>
> Comments?
>
> Jeff
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