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project organizational and ide q.

i'm going to develop 3 console apps(interacting with each other) under linux with following structure:

common // common classes used by all 3 apps
app1 // app1 ;-=---) etc
app2
app3

i've created makefiles(very simple) it's ok, but whenever i try to import this structure to any ide(kdevelop, anjuta) i fail. they ignore sources in "common" and trying to add that files results in copying 'em to every project. seems like no IDE for linux handles multiple projects in ... yeah, workspace and files in different locations...

and, yes, I can use combination of texteditor, make, gdb, but at the end gui was invented to organize information, not to fancy people with skins, so i'd like to have something integrated... i know i'm thinking with MS VS concepts, but...

any ideas?
thanks