[CMake] Eclipse/CMake projects show same file multiple times

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 07 March 2013, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Thursday 07 March 2013, Campbell Barton wrote:
> > With default Eclipse project (version 2.8.10.2), "Eclipse CDT4 - Unix
> > Makefiles", I get the same file showing multiple times when using
> > Open-Resources.
> > 
> > It also shows object files in the listing (.o) which is fairly
> > annoying and makes Open-Resources not that useful.
> > 
> > Example screenshot:
> > http://www.graphicall.org/ftp/ideasman42/eclipse_cmake_project.png
> > 
> > Is this a known problem?, Should I report a bug?
> 
> Set the cmake variable CMAKE_ECLIPSE_GENERATE_LINKED_RESOURCES to FALSE
> (since 2.8.10 I think, it's in the cache) to FALSE, and see whether this
> is better for you.
> 
> Also, please try 2.8.11, for which RCs will be out really soon now. This
> has an additional change which has to do with this.
> 
> Eclipse does have some weird behaviour.
> It would be nice if I could tell Eclipse to ignore linked resources e.g.
> when searching, so it doesn't show the same file multiple times, or if
> Eclipse would figure out that the linked resources actually references the
> same file multiple times, but it doesn't.
> There is an Eclipse setting to ignore linked resources when searching, but
> this setting is not in the project file, so cmake can't set it :-/
> 
> Also Eclipse is not able to handle out-of-source projects, and in theory
> this should be simple. Just add an entry to the project file which points
> to the source directory and use that one.
> 
> It would be great if somebody could try to get patches for that Eclipse.

should be: ...could try to get patches for that _into_ Eclipse.

Alex