Relative directory paths

[Amos Shapira]

Configuration Information:
Product: Visual Cafe for Windows Database Edition 3.0

I'm looking in ways to specify relative path names for "output
direcotry" and "input directory" of a project.

The problem I'm facing is that I have one package as its own
self-contained VC project, and it is integrated using Perforce into
other packages which use it. Each such integration causes the path to
be different (perforce allows sort of continous "synchronization" of
integrated parts after the integration).

Using a relative path I'd be able to "include" the project in the
projects which use it and keep the output directory relative to the
"per-user" root of the copy.

E.g. I have "DataStore/Lib" for jar output and
"ComponentModel/Imports/DataStore/Lib" when the DataStore project is
integrated into ComponentModel.

I suspect that maybe Makefile will help here, but would Makefiles
work well with the GUI IDE?

Thanks.

[Tim Dutton (Symantec)]

Amos,

Take a look at these document in our online Knowledge Base:

Title: 'Visual Café‚ and Makefiles: Automating the Build Process'
Document ID: 1998331131555
Web URL:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/devtools.nsf/docid/1998331131555&src=w

Title: 'Does Visual Cafe Generate Makefiles from within the GUI?'
Document ID: 1999062108291505
Web URL:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/devtools.nsf/docid/1999062108291505&src=w

Title: 'Automating builds with makefiles'
Document ID: 2000030817064305
Web URL:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/devtools.nsf/docid/2000030817064305&src=w

Regards,

Tim Dutton
Internet Tools Technical Support
Symantec Corporation