Autotools build preferences dialog.
Sébastien Granjoux
seb.sfo@free.fr
Jaume Planas
jplanas@itberga.com 2011
Gil Forcada
gilforcada@guifi.net 2013

# Autotools Build Preferences Dialog

The dialog allows you to set global options for building files.

# Run several commands at a time

make is able to run several compilations at the same time. It decreases build time when having a multi-core processor but could trigger some issues so this can be enabled or disabled with this check box.

# Continue on errors

By default make stops as soon as it gets an error, it can be faster to continue and get errors for all files in one step. You have to check this check box to get this behavior.

# Translate messages

By default errors and warnings message are translated. It has two drawbacks though. In order to recognize errors and warnings the translation of Anjuta and the compiler should perfectly match. Moreover, it is often more difficult to find help on the internet when searching translated messages as they are much less common. Unchecking this check box allows to disable translation.

# Highlight build warnings and errors in editor

Errors and warnings during the build are displayed and highlighted in the message window. By checking this option, they are highlighted in the editor too.

# Install as root

Installing a program needs to copy files into system directories which are often not writable by users. If this check box is checked, you can choose to use sudo or su before installing the files to acquire enough right to do it.