Compiling C in KDE

[Derek Broughton]

James Gray wrote:

> Like I said earlier in the thread - you can edit the Kdev project file
> and change it from using qmake to standard gmake+Makefiles.  Then in the
> build menu you see all the targets defined in your project's Makefile.
> The magic "F8" (IIRC) will trigger a "make" run using the default
> target.  Whatever the magic button, Kdev will show you the compiler
> output in a panel and if there's problems, clicking on the error/warning
> in the panel takes you straight to the offending line of code in the
> editor - very neat.

I didn't quite grasp that from your post, but it still seems really weird. 
If you have to manually edit every project file to make the build menu
work, it seems like a bug.
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derek