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Asked: 2026-06-03T06:07:52+00:00

I am using Emacs 23 and have the following problem: I run our project’s

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I am using Emacs 23 and have the following problem:

I run our project’s build system from within Emacs like M-x compile -> cd /foo/bar && ./build

The build system now does some magic, “cd”s into some subdirectory for the build process and then gcc throws an error:

../src/somesource.cc:50 error: blablabla

Now the problem is that Emacs won’t find that path, because it assumes the compile process started out in /foo/bar, and not in /foo/bar/builddir. So the leading “../” is not working for Emacs, e.g. when running compile-goto-error. Is there a way to tell Emacs to try skipping leading “../”?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The best solution might be to change the build system to emit messages when it changes directories. Emacs looks for 

    Entering directory `...'
... 
Leaving directory `...'

    (See the compilation-directory-matcher variable. If your build system does emit messages when it changes directories, but they’re not in the format Emacs is looking for, you can add new regexps to compilation-directory-matcher.)

    The other solution is to change compilation-search-path (which is a list of directories).

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