[cdt-debug-dev] Building CDT from sources

[John Cortell <r4609c@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know this isn't the most appropriate mailing list for this question, but 
this list has low traffic and I'm not eager to go on eclipse.org and 
initiate a new subscription for one question. So, please bare with me.

We're building CDT from source, using the same script/ANT files used to 
generate the eclipse.org releases. We've had to do these builds from the 
root of the c drive (c:\cdt) to avoid exceeding the Windows 260 path limit. 
The root of C is not a natural location for our build environment, so we 
have to do it as a temporary copy thing. Bottom line is that it's ugly and 
prone to error (the "copy-back" to its natural location fails if you, e.g., 
open a file in the tree during the build and leave it open).

Has anyone else hit this path limit issue and is there no other reasonable 
solution other than ensuring the build root is in a shallow file-system 
location?

John