Re: Emacs and parent directory Makefile

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:51:19 -0500
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_Maniaci?= <stephane.maniaci@gmail.com>
> 
> My project uses non-recursive Makefile, thus there is only (at the moment) a
> single Makefile in my project root tree, that compiles (with Autotools) all
> my sources files, located in the src/ directory.
> 
> Now the problem is : when I'm editing my code and tries to compile it (M-x
> compile), I have to use 'make -k -C ../', which works fine, but Emacs
> doesn't know anymore which files contains error. When trying to move to last
> error, it outputs this :
> 
> Find this error in (default src/ease-about-dialog.vala): ~/build/ease/src/
> 
> Does anyone have a workaround for this ?

Switch to the buffer that visits your top-level Makefile, before
typing "M-x compile".