mohkale / compile-multi

Multi target interface to compile.

Hi there, I'm mohkale (⌐■_■)

compile-multi's Issues

`compile-multi-forms` does not work properly

Problem

It looks like values from compile-multi-forms are not substituted into compile-multi-config.

Example

Can be reproduced in emacs -Q

1. (optional, default value already contains this) (setq compile-multi-forms '((file-name . (buffer-file-name))))
2. (setq compile-multi-config '((t ("say file name" "echo" file-name))))
3. Run compile-multi in some file, it will complain: Invalid function: "say file name"
4. (setq compile-multi-config '((t ("say file name" "echo" (buffer-file-name)))))
5. Run compile-multi in some file, it will work correctly

Possible source of the problem

These lines are somewhat suspicious:

compile-multi/compile-multi.el

Lines 110 to 115 in f4c3157

	(let* ((val (or (alist-get task compile-multi-forms)
	task))
	(evaluated-value (eval val)))
	(unless (stringp val)
	(error "Failed to stringify task argument %s" val))
	evaluated-value))

If I change let* to this, everything works fine:

(let* ((val (or (alist-get it compile-multi-forms)
                it))
       (evaluated-value (eval val)))
  (unless (stringp evaluated-value)
    (error "Failed to stringify task argument %s" val))
  evaluated-value)

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Q: How to approach dealing with build directories?

Hi,

I saw this pop up on the MELPA feed today so I'm intrigued if this is a route to enabling similar consult powered compile features that I currently achieve with counsel's compile (https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper/blob/master/counsel.el#L6371). I was involved in writing that and one feature that was important was dealing with build directories. This meant counsel-compile goes through multiple selection stages allowing you to either select a previous build command from history, or select a build dir at which point it could then extract targets from the Makefile.

Is this something you could approach with compile-multi directly or should I look at doing this within the projection-multi-compile extensions?