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M-x compile does not work well with make -s

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Message #11 received at 9323 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 9323 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9323: Non-recursive make build systems and M-x compile
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:43:07 +0100

On 18 August 2011 22:48, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org> writes:
>
>> If I change the build command to make -C .., then Emacs gives errors
>> in the compile buffer pointing to files like "src/foo.c", but can't
>> follow those links, I presume because it considers the current dir for
>> the build to be "src".
>
> make -C should output "Entering directory" lines which are parsed by
> Emacs.

It does; sorry I wasn't clear. The problem is that the links start:
src/foo.c, but the directory for the compilation is src, so in
following the link, Emacs tries to find src/src/foo.c, and fails.

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