From kdevelop-bugs  Mon Jan 01 01:34:01 2007
From: Claus Wilke <wilke () spamcop ! net>
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:34:01 +0000
To: kdevelop-bugs
Subject: [Bug 139457] New: It is impossible to manually add files to a project
Message-Id: <20070101023359.139457.wilke () spamcop ! net>
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http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139457         
           Summary: It is impossible to manually add files to a project of
                    type "Generic C++  Application (Automake based)".
           Product: kdevelop
           Version: 3.3.4
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdevelop-bugs kdevelop org
        ReportedBy: wilke spamcop net


Version:           3.3.4 (using KDE 3.5.5, Kubuntu (edgy) 4:3.5.5-0ubuntu3)
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.17-10-generic

In an automake based project, it is impossible to manually add files to the project (in contrast to say the custom makefile based projects, where right-clicking on the File Tree has the option "add to project").

The reasoning why this option is missing is probably that KDevelop can figure out from the Makefiles which files are part of the project and which are not. The problem is that this process can fail. In a large real-world project, it is inevitable that there will be some pieces that are non-standard. For example, I have a large C++ project that also contains some python bindings. The python bindings use the python make structure, and KDevelop does not recognize the corresponding C++ files as part of the project.

Since it is important to have all source files being recognized by KDevelop as part of the project (for code completion, project-wide search/replace, etc.), I consider it a bug when I can't manually override KDevelop's incorrect choice of which files to include into the project.