IntelliJ for jdk dev - question about idea.sh

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

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:

* path to JDK root (this is needed to find the sources)

* path to .idea output

* path to build output (needed for spec.gmk and also for generated sources)

Maurizio
>
> Thank you,
>
> Thomas