IntelliJ for jdk dev - question about idea.sh (original) (raw)

Maurizio Cimadamore maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com
Thu Jun 21 10🔞19 UTC 2018


On 20/06/18 14:04, Thomas Stüfe wrote:

Hi all,

I am checking out IntelliJ as an alternative for jdk development. A possibly stupid question, does the /bin/idea.sh project-build script assume that we run configure from within the source directory? Right now yes, it does assume that. In my workflow I always place the output directories outside the source tree, and I would to keep it that way. I would even prefer the .idea folder to live outside the source tree as well. Is that possible? It is a very reasonable request. I think we are talking about three variables:

Maurizio

Thank you, Thomas



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