Re: Builder, a build system integration for Emacs

[Philip Kaludercic]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > As far as I know, Emacs does not provide a convenient way to use build
>   > systems,
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> Isn't "use build systems" what M-x compile does?
> Assuming that each bui;d system provides a shell command to invoke it,
> M-x compile can run that command and build the package.

The issue is not what M-x compile, but that with a lot of modern
programming languages the build systems are complex but automatable, to
a point that it would be nice if Emacs could detect the necessary
information to invoke the right command or sequence of commands.