Re: [h-e-w] emacs 21 and non-local filesystems

[Alexander G. Burchell]

I know of no new support for remote compilation (this is not
authoritative, of course!).  I have some hacks to support remote
compilation which I use:

(defvar *my-remote-compile-history* nil
  "Command history for my-remote-compile.")

;; optional so next-error will work
(setq compilation-search-path "YOUR_LOCAL_DIRECTORY")

(defun my-remote-compile (arg)
  "Perform a standard remote compilation."
  (interactive "P")
  (flet ((rsh-compile (host user command)
           (save-excursion
             (set-buffer (get-buffer-create "*compilation*"))
             (kill-region (point-min) (point-max))
             (cd-absolute remote-compile-directory)
             (compilation-mode)
             (let ((proc (start-process
                          "compilation" (get-buffer "*compilation*")
                          "c:/bin/sh.exe" "-c"
                          (format "rsh %s -l %s \"(cd %s ; %s)\""
                                  host user remote-compile-directory command))))
               (set-process-sentinel proc 'compilation-sentinel))))
         ;; See "cygwin-quote-fix.el":
         (mswindows-executable-type (program) 'dos))
    (save-some-buffers t nil)           ; don't ask for confirmation
    (if arg
        (let ((compile-command
               (read-string "Compilation command: " "make -k "
                            '*my-remote-compile-history*))
              (remote-compile-directory "YOUR_REMOTE_DIRECTORY"))
          (rsh-compile "YOUR_REMOTE_HOST" "YOUR_USER_NAME" compile-command))
      (rsh-compile "YOUR_REMOTE_HOST" "YOUR_USER_NAME"
                   (or (car *my-remote-compile-history*) "make -k")))))

;; Example:
;; YOUR_REMOTE_HOST     blurfle
;; YOUR_USER_NAME       gnu
;; YOUR_REMOTE_DIRECTORY        /usr/home/gnu/project/
;; YOUR_LOCAL_DIRECTORY         e:/project/

;; where YOUR_REMOTE_DIRECTORY is mounted as YOUR_LOCAL_DIRECTORY
;; using samba or nfs

I forget what the cygwin-quote-fix does, you can probably leave it
out.  If someone knows of a better solution, please let me know.

Best wishes,
-- 
Alexander G. Burchell
Wilshire Associates
address@hidden


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