Re: Quickfix Has Wrong Path to Source Files

I think we are generally in agreement here. Details below.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:10:22 PM UTC-6, Stephen Rasku wrote:
> > I'm not quite sure what you mean about "makefile specify[ing] absolute
> >
> > paths".
>
> You said you fixed the problem by making ccfilter not prepend the current directory.
>
> The string being prepended is "build/i586-linux/" so I assume you're building from that directory.

I am using make to call CMake and CMake is called iteratively in each
architecture (e.g, build/i586-linux, build/x86_64-linux, etc.).
However it's prepending a local directory to an absolute directory
which, as you note below, causes problems.

> > If you are in the current
> > directory, there's no need to prepend the current directory. Relative
> > paths should work. I may be missing something, though.
>
> Relative paths will only work as long as Vim stays in the same directory. Loading some build output with :cfile can be quite difficult if relative paths are used, and I think I've seen quirks even when using :make.
>
> Probably the correct thing to do is to prepend current directoy, but only if the path is relative. If the path is absolute, don't prepend anything.
>
> Or even better, resolve the full path based on current directory always, and replace the full path string with the resolved path. This will also "fix" paths like project/p1/../libs/p2 to become /home/accts/johndoe/project/libs/p2.

Sounds like a good solution.

...Stephen

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