kdisneur
Hi,
When we run a mix compile in an umbrella app, we have the following output:
==> app_name
Compiling 1 file (.ex)
warning: an error message
web/controllers/my_controller.ex:4
The path is relative from the umbrella application (i.e: app_name) instead of the root application.
It’s a problem for me because I can’t make my linter works properly with mix compile 
. On dogma and credo it works well because they use a path from the root application.
[R] ↓ Line is too long (max is 120, was 126).
┃ apps/app_name/web/controllers/my_controller.ex:5:121 (AppName.MyController.show)
Is there any reason to have this path relative to the child application? Do you know if there are a mix option to output an “absolute” path or if it’s a behaviour we could change in future releases?
Thanks for your help 
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josevalim
The reason why it is a relative path is because
mix compileis defined as a recursive task. So it literally changes the directory to inside each application and then compile its code.kdisneur
Thanks for the reply @josevalim I now understand why it’s relative - I didn’t know about the
recursiveattribute on Mix.I will try to hack something on my editor to prepend the path returned by Elixir to my project path in order to build a link I can follow.
Thanks