Thanks! Good to know it is not me...

When building from Eclipse/ESP-IDF a new directory, [project_home]/esp_idf_components/, is created automatically in the project home directory, and all the ESP-IDF component source files are copied to it. I suspect this is to do with 'IDF Component Manager'... If I remove the [project_home]/esp_idf_...

Thank you!

I am now down to 668 instead of 1000+ for my project proper...

Is it normal to have Build Configuration related menu items all greyed out in Eclipse?

For example:
I am using Eclipse C/C++ 2022.6, ESP-IDF plugin 2.6 and esp-idf-v4.4.2. The project was created by importing a little cli test project.

After a project config change or clean, 'idf.py build' compiles every esp-idf library component regardless of whether the components are used in the project or not. Is there any way to avoid compiling 1000+ source files when building even just a simple blank test project? An example: . ~/ESP32/esp-i...