Bug 165793 - Provide a description for Paths-and-Symbols tabs in properties
Summary: Provide a description for Paths-and-Symbols tabs in properties
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: CDT
Classification: Tools
Component: cdt-build (show other bugs)
Version: 3.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: cdt-build-inbox@eclipse.org CLA
QA Contact: Jonah Graham CLA
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Reported: 2006-11-24 10:47 EST by Greg Jordan CLA
Modified: 2020-09-04 15:26 EDT (History)
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Description Greg Jordan CLA 2006-11-24 10:47:19 EST 
I just spent an age poking around in a standard build project wondering why the include paths that I specified in "Properties: C/C++ Include Paths & Symbols" are not passed to the makefile - despite having clicked "Export". Then I discovered the following interesting link:

http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.tools.cdt/msg08788.html

The GUI seems thereby to be suggesting a functionality that it is not delivering, and is thus at least very misleading. Conversely, if the include paths are really supposed to be passed to the makefile, then this does not seem to be happening. Could you provide some feedback here please?
Comment 1 Andrew Gvozdev CLA 2010-03-20 19:33:29 EDT 
(In reply to comment #0)
> The GUI seems thereby to be suggesting a functionality that it is not
> delivering, 
In fact, the GUI does not suggest anything in those properties. Your expectations are wrong but I agree that it should give some kind of description to avoid confusion like that. I am changing the subject of this bug to request the description for those properties.