On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 4:01 AM Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 09:52:34 +0100, Manuel Klimek wrote:
> > In the compilation database (
> > https://clang.llvm.org/docs/JSONCompilationDatabase.html) we specify the
> > build dir for each file.
>
> But that is (generally) output from the build system, not the compiler.
> The build system knows because…well, it does. The compiler is just
> invoked in a working directory and given no indication of where a "root"
> directory is (and I think it might be silly to pass it on the command
> line just to have it in this file, but maybe not).


Can't the compiler put in the current work directory it's been called
with? That's what I'd expect.