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Empty build_files variable [message #806864]

Sat, 25 February 2012 16:22

Ian Edwards

Messages: 1
Registered: February 2012

Junior Member

I am trying to put together an external builder for our (ancient) build system, specifically I want to be able to kick off a subset of our build when a particular file is modified.

All that I need to make this work, I believe, is a list of the files that have been modified to cause the build, when I get this, I can simply cd to the directory in which each file exists and issue our bespoke build command - iterating over all of the modified file directories in this way will result in the build I want.

Looking at the documentation, and indeed the description of the variable 'build_files' I believe I should get precisely that - a list of the files that caused the build to be initiated - but it is coming back with an empty list...

What am I doing wrong?

The description I see for build_files is:

"Returns the set of absolute file system paths whose modification caused the current build. A list of the characters, 'a' (added), 'c' (changed), 'r' (removed), 'f' (files only), 'd' (directories only), can be supplied as an argument to limit the file list to just those types of deltas. Defaults to all deltas."

The CDT version I'm using is: 6.0.2.201002161416 (in RTC 3.0.1.1, Eclipse 3.5.2.R35) but I have also tried using CDT 8.0.2.201202111925 (using RTC 3.0.1.1 under Eclipse 3.7.1.r37) and it also doesn't seem to do what I expect.

[Updated on: Sat, 25 February 2012 21:07]

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Re: Empty build_files variable [message #837371 is a reply to message #806864]

Thu, 05 April 2012 15:37

John Hubbard

Messages: 2
Registered: April 2012

Junior Member

I think that I am seeing the same problem. I have manually defined the build command as
/home/jhubbard/.bin/eclipseMake
and the auto build should pass
${build_files}
incremental build passes
gcc_all
and clean passes
gcc_clean
the incremental build, and the clean both work as expected but ${build_files} always gets expanded to nothing. e.g.

**** Build of configuration Default for project atstcpp ****

/home/jhubbard/.bin/eclipseMake
ERROR need at least one argument!

**** Build Finished ****

I had also tried ${selected_resource_lock}. That seems to read the resource that I have open when editing my build configuration and remembers it for ever. For example if I have Foo.cpp selected when I edit my build configuration my eclipseMake script is always passed Foo.cpp even after I start editing and safe the file Bar.cpp.

I'm using eclipse 3.7.1r37 with CDT Version 8.0.2.201202111925 on a Linux x86_64 machine.

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Re: Empty build_files variable [message #837408 is a reply to message #837371]

Thu, 05 April 2012 16:28

John Hubbard

Messages: 2
Registered: April 2012

Junior Member

I've gone ahead and opened up a bug for this issue. The ID is 376199. I'd post a link but apparently I haven't posted enough messages yet to be able to post links yet.

https :// bugs dot eclipse dot org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=376199

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