Create compile-commands.json with Make #10269
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Motivation
The language server clangd needs to know the build flags which it reads from a file
compile_commands.json
("JSON Compilation Database").The contributing section of the manual suggests to create this file with
This works but I find it a little unsatisfactory because of two reasons:
bear
does not do incremental updates, rebuilding a single file will result in a single file incompile_commands.json
.Context
This PR adds to build system a target to create the
compile_commands.json
file without any unnecessary building. I tried to follow the patterns in the existing makefiles.Priorities and Process
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