custom make, builddir != srcdir

[David nolden]

Am Samstag 14 Februar 2009 10:31:38 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> On 14.02.09 11:57:40, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > On Friday 13 February 2009 23:19:53 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > On 13.02.09 22:28:36, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > > > It appears KDevelop4 at present does not support custom make projects
> > > > where builddir is not the same as source dir. Does anybody knows
> > > > what it would take to implement such support, and what would be the
> > > > major steps, codewise?
> > >
> > > Provide a setting in the custom-make-config dialog for the builddir,
> > > write code which calculates the relative path of a given folder/dir
> > > compared to the projects source root and adds the builddir before that
> > > (for buildDirectory()).
> >
> > I am somewhat confused. Say, I open a project given the Makefile (in
> > build dir). Say I've also added option to specify where source tree is.
> > OK, but what do you mean by:
>
> Thats not supported at the moment at all in the custom make support, so
> you'd probably have to add quite a bunch of code. Its probably easier to
> select the source-dir and then choose "Custom Make" from the drop-down
> box in the open-project wizard.

But it would be good if it could work that way, because the out-of-source 
build-directories usually contain some pointer back to the source-directory. 
That could be used, and then the user has to specify only a single directory.

Greetings, David