Re: builddir != srcdir in jhbuild breaks my workflow

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 11:43:51AM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 19:23 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> >  
> > 1) Once a project is fully built, to re-build something I always do
> > something along those lines:
> >
> > To compile only what I need:
> > <inside git repo, in my 'build' terminal tab>
> > $ jhbuild shell
> > [jhbuild] $ cd src/
> > [jhbuild] $ make
> >
> > To re-build only a certain *.c file, to see if there are any
> > warnings:
> > [jhbuild] $ touch file.c
> > [jhbuild] $ make
>
> Just was looking back at this thread, and wondered - what if we
> (by unspecified means) made it that under 'jhbuild shell', 
> 'make' was a shell alias/function that ran make in the right
> place in the src dir?


It is not just for the 'make' command, sometimes I want to open a
generated file alongside a file from srcdir, for example for GTK-Doc
(opening the 'unused' file alongside the section file, to add the
new symbols).

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Sébastien