Re: Calling Makefile from different directory

[Tom Culliton <culliton@xxxxxx>]

I always use dired mode (which I've got mapped to ^X-d) for cases like
this, or just edit the makefile.  All you really need is to go to a
buffer that's "in" the right directory.  The dired trick is especially
useful when you're editing files scattered around a directory tree or
the make/ant/... file is in a subdirectory of the root for some reason.
Looking at your question again, since you're starting jed from the
"right place", you can also use the *scratch* buffer.

BTW - Once you've done the first compile from the "right place" the
compile buffer is "there" and you can just cycle back to it to
recompile.

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:30:23 -0400 "John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Martin Klaiber <martinkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Does someone know a way to tell JED to start compiling from the
> >directory where I started JED?  Calling make with 
> >
> >    make -f ../Makefile
> >
> >is no solution, because JED is still in the subdirectory and the paths
> >in the Makefile are wrong then.
> 
> What about this:
> 
> define make ()
> {
>    variable cmd = read_mini ("Compile command:","","");
>    variable cbuf = whatbuf ();
>    setbuf ("*scratch*");
>    compile (cmd);
>    sw2buf (cbuf);
> }
> 
> Thanks,
> --John

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