[Bug-AUCTeX] help needed invoking makefile

[Patrick Drechsler]

Hi,

this is really not a bug report.

I have a large latex project including many subdirectories. Also,
I have a single Makefile in the root folder of this
project. Since Emacs is able to parse the "stuff-at-the-end":

%%% Local Variables: 
%%% mode: latex
%%% TeX-master: "../../main"
%%% End: 

I was wondering if it's possible to pass the "TeX-master"
information to Emacs' `M-x compile' command.

I would like to use a function `M-x pd-make' --only for this project--
which invokes the Makefile located in the root folder of this project,
even if I am invoking `M-x compile' (or `M-x pd-make') from a buffer
which is visiting a file within a subfolder of this project.

Can somebody help me? Or should I rather post this to emacs.help?

Cheers,

Patrick 

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
 of 2007-03-18 on golem
Package: 2007-05-05

current state:
==============
(setq
 AUCTeX-date "2007-05-05"
 window-system 'x
 LaTeX-version "2e"
 TeX-style-path '("style" "auto" 
"/home/patrick/data/uni/literature/bibtex-stuff/style"
                  "/home/patrick/data/uni/literature/bibtex-stuff/auto" 
"/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/style"
                  "/usr/local/var/auctex")
 TeX-auto-save t
 TeX-parse-self t
 TeX-master t
 TeX-command-list '(("TeX" "%(PDF)%(tex) %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX 
nil (plain-tex-mode texinfo-mode ams-tex-mode) :help
                     "Run plain TeX")
                    ("LaTeX" "%`%l%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (latex-mode 
doctex-mode) :help "Run LaTeX")
                    ("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %t" TeX-run-compile nil 
(texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with Info output")
                    ("Makeinfo HTML" "makeinfo --html %t" TeX-run-compile nil 
(texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with HTML output")
                    ("AmSTeX" "%(PDF)amstex %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t" 
TeX-run-TeX nil (ams-tex-mode) :help "Run AMSTeX")
                    ("ConTeXt" "texexec --once --texutil %(execopts)%t" 
TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt once")
                    ("ConTeXt Full" "texexec %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil 
(context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt until completion")
                    ("BibTeX" "bibtex %s" TeX-run-BibTeX nil t :help "Run 
BibTeX") ("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard t t :help "Run Viewer")
                    ("Print" "%p" TeX-run-command t t :help "Print the file")
                    ("Queue" "%q" TeX-run-background nil t :help "View the 
printer queue" :visible TeX-queue-command)
                    ("File" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-command t t :help 
"Generate PostScript file")
                    ("Index" "makeindex %s" TeX-run-command nil t :help "Create 
index file")
                    ("Check" "lacheck %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode) 
:help "Check LaTeX file for correctness")
                    ("Spell" "(TeX-ispell-document \"\")" TeX-run-function nil 
t :help "Spell-check the document")
                    ("Clean" "TeX-clean" TeX-run-function nil t :help "Delete 
generated intermediate files")
                    ("Clean All" "(TeX-clean t)" TeX-run-function nil t :help 
"Delete generated intermediate and output files")
                    ("ps4pdf" "ps4pdf %s" TeX-run-command t t :help "Run 
ps4pdf"))
 )

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