[cdt-dev] question on integrating/extending the make/build process

[Wendell MacKenzie <mackendw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi:

   I've been working on performing tighter integration for a C based application I support from the

Eclipse CDT environment we use to support it.    We are migrating the source into a GIT supported

source control environment and want to automate as much as possible the build process.  

   I setup the application to be built into an RPM package, thus have a specfile that describes it.

When we do builds, typically, all that changes is the version (RELEASE and VERSION) vars

and change log entries describing what was modified.  To accomplish integrating this into the 

build process, I created a new tag in the Makefile and created a target in the eclipse process that

maps to it.  In the tag commands I prompt the dev for these data elements and massage the

specfile before a packaging build is done.

   Is this "normal" behaviour or is there a more elegant way of doing this using eclipse CDT?

thx for any insight/tips.

Wendell

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D. Wendell MacKenzie

Software Developer

Email: mackendw@xxxxxxxxx
Phone: 902-626-8708 (cell)