title: Eclipse "this is not a CDT project" - how to figure out what is wrong
body: <p>I am &quot;quasi-generating&quot; an eclipse project -
  I have:
  (a) numerous projects I need to create
  (b) Every project has the same pattern of source dirs and include dirs
  (c) And linker scripts etc...</p>
  <p>So I have a small python script that reads a json file with specifics and outputs a .project and .cproject file</p>
  <p>This works, but from time to time something goes wrong and I get the &quot;This is not a CDT Project&quot; message in eclipse.</p>
  <p>Its very labour intensive to figure out the stupid mistake - my question is this:  Is there a way to get eclipse/CDT to tell me what it is choking on? For example a log file of some sort?</p>
  <p>Please do not even suggest CMAKE - CMAKE does <em>NOT</em> work for embedded cross-compiling platforms with highly customized Eclipse packages from companies like Xilinx and Microsemi.  And the project needs to a CDT project, not a CDT-Makefile project for numerous other reasons. (Which for brevity I will not go into here)</p>