Re: [Anjuta-list] Confused...

[Andreas Volz <lists brachttal net>]

Am Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:13:40 -0300 schrieb John Coppens:

> Hello all.
> I'm still getting "Are you sure you want to debug a program not using
> the Debug configuration?". Of course I could just say "Do not show
> again", but that defeats the purpose of warnings, doesn't it?
> 
> In the Anjuta manual, I finds this:
> (http://library.gnome.org/devel/anjuta-manual/stable/build-configure.html.en)
> 
> +++++++++++
> + The build directory
> + 
> + This is the build directory name. In the Default configuration, it
> is
> + the same directory as the source directory but autotools supports
> + building in a different directory.
> + 
> + Each configuration must have a different build directory and if one
> + configuration uses the source directory, you cannot have other
> + configurations at the same time. You need to run Build ▸ Remove
> + Configuration on the configuration using the source directory before
> + adding a new configuration.
> +++++++++++
> 
> So, basically, (I understand) it says: by default (out-of-the-box) it
> uses the source directory, and you cannot use the other options,
> because if one uses the source directories, the others won't work.
> 
> 
> 
> Now, running "Remove configuration" produces an error here:
> 
> + Error: source directory already configured; run "make distclean"
> there
> + first.
> 
> But, the manual for "Remove configuration" tells me:
> 
> + ... choose Build ▸ Remove Configuration. It run make
> + distclean and deletes more files than Clean Project. In other
> words, it
> + leaves the project as though it has just been extracted from a
> + distribution tarball...
> 
> Just to be sure, I tried to run "make distclean" in the source dir,
> but the error remains.
> 
> I'm confused...
> 
> Could it be that the new directories (the ones to build Debug for
> example) have to be at the same level as $prefix/src (say
> $project/debug)?

I tried the new debug profiles too, but had to much problems with it. I
decided to write a configure wrapper like this:

> cat debug_configure 
#!/bin/sh

CXXFLAGS="-O0 -ggdb" CFLAGS="-O0 -ggdb" ./configure $@

This works really good for me.

regards
Andreas