Doing a make over TRAMP

Question

I am using Emacs Tramp for remote development. I think something must be wrong. I had some serious issues with speed when I used ssh:, so I switched to scp:. It seems to work much faster. I tried to run M-x compile with make and it seems to act differently than if I run make directly from a shell prompt. Namely, it is unable to find .h files. It compiles fine from a shell prompt.

Any ideas why this is happening?

Answer 1

Try using M-x tramp-compile explicitly. The keybindings for compilation are automatically remapped when you're editing a remote file with TRAMP, but M-x compile may be operating on the local copy of the files. ?