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When I set up a C project, after building it twice I always get a warning "invalid project path. duplicate path entries". When I clean the project it goes away but after the second build it´s there again.
Hi - Can someone suggest why CDT needs to keep these "Invalid Project Path: Duplicate path entry" messages around? Specifically they are emitted under: org.eclipse.cdt.internal.core.model.PathEntryUtil#validatePathEntry(ICProject cProject, IPathEntry[] entries). This has apparently confused users in the past: http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.tools.cdt/msg14370.html http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=107613 and another user just reported: "There is no indication on what the warning is exactly about. Lately I spent 30 mins trying to figure out which exactly path is duplicated and where these duplicates are. Then failed and ignored the warning." Can we either get rid of these warnings or be a bit more specific about where the problem occurs and how to fix it? For our use, they are useless because our build system will emit the same warnings. Obviously in shops where users cannot check in code with warnings this can be a big time waster.
You can make your own default settings for the Problems View, Filter dialog. I added a setting to filter out the Path Entry Problems, like so: org.eclipse.ui.ide/PROBLEMS_FILTERS=<?xml version\="1.0" encoding\="UTF-8"?>\r\n<filters>\r\n<filter IMemento.internal.id\="Default" contains\="true" description\="" enabled\="true" onResource\="3" selectBySeverity\="false" selectionStatus\="org.eclipse.cdt.core.pathentry_problem\:false\:" severity\="0"/>\r\n</filters>
So why can't this be fixed? I've just wasted an hour or so myself. I don't like to filter problems, and that seems to be the only to avoid seeing the [invalid] warning. Thanks,
Is the bug still in the current build of CDT, and if so, can you specify the version of eclipse and CDT used?
I still have the problem with Eclipse 3.4.1 and CDT 5.0.1. From the Problems view: Description Resource Path Location Type Invalid project path: Duplicate path entries. Checkerboard pathentry Path Entry Problem Is there some way to fix it? Thanks, Ken
Bug #117013 (from 2005) seems to be related.
Created attachment 136660 [details] Remove the check for duplicate path entries. I've recently run into (I think) this same issue while implementing scanner discovery for my tool chain. In my case I have two tools, a compiler and an assembler, that each have their own built in macros. Some of these macros, however, are the same for both tools (i.e. __PRODUCTVERSION__=1234). When validating the resolved path entries the PathEntryManager seems to lump them all into one list and then complains that they are duplicates even though they apply to two completely different inputTypes. This results in a case where a user sees an alarming warning that they can do nothing about and that has no adverse impact on their project. Given the comments above does it perhaps makes sense to remove these warnings? I can't see how they're terribly useful given that there's nothing that the user can do about them. Assuming that there is some agreement here I've attached a proposed patch that removes these warnings from the latest trunk (as of 6.0 RC1 anyway). If there is some good reason for this warning could someone maybe help educate the rest of us?
Wouldn't it be the better way to take in consideration a tool and emit warnings only if the duplicates belong to the same tool? Additionally, "Duplicate path entry" warning could be made less cryptic and actually useful by specifying exact "path" in question.
I agree it should be fixed, but this is minor. Removing the check is not the right thing to do though.
It is still happening in Eclipse 3.5.1 and CDT 6.0.0. It is really annoying and has apparently caused many people (including myself) much time. There are many Google hits on this problem. It is _not_ minor, and it is probably not that hard to fix or at least to post a workaround. I do not understand why it is being ignored. It is now saying: Invalid project path: Duplicate path entries found (/Checkerboard [Include path] isSystemInclude:true includePath:C:/Cygwin/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/include/c++), path: [/Checkerboard]. That is more information, but doesn't tell me enough to fix it or even understand what is causing it. For the record: I got rid of this last occurrence by deleting the warning in the Problems view. It hasn't appeared after three cleans and rebuilds. However, I have got rid of it before, and it has eventually returned time after time.
(In reply to comment #10) > It is now saying: > Invalid project path: Duplicate path entries found > (/Checkerboard [Include path] isSystemInclude:true > includePath:C:/Cygwin/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/include/c++), path: > [/Checkerboard]. Thanks for posting this message. I haven't seen that one yet. > It is _not_ minor, and it is probably not that hard > to fix or at least to post a workaround. I do not understand why it is being ignored. CDT is an open source project driven by community efforts. Unfortunately nobody feels this is important enough to invest their time and fix it given the difficulty of the task. I think you underestimate it but feel free to prove me wrong and post a patch. Just make sure that patch corrects the real problem and not just disables diagnostic message.
Still seeing the same problem in Indigo
I was getting a similar error which was due to NON unique Build directories in Build configurations Highlight project. right click and select properties Select C/C++ Build Select each Build configuration and check Build directory under the builder settings and make sure they are all unique / different .
