Kdevelop modifies files - even excluded files!

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Wednesday March 02 2016 23:54:51 Erik Rull wrote:

Hi,

>The project contains ~ 120k lines of code, distributed over several
>makefiles (per directory).

For the build complexity it's more the number of files and levels of directories that counts than the total lines of code.

>I wouldn't mind recreating the project if the files stay untouched then.
>I will try to start from scratch by moving the *kdev4* files away.

You found a way to invoke make that should work for KDevelop and doesn't modify any of your files, right? That does open a possibility no one apparently thought about. Write a wrapper script that gets invoked instead of the real make command. Even if you cannot configure the make command to execute for project parsing you can still ensure that it's highly likely that your wrapper gets executed; it does require some discipline from you of course.

R.