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Re: find-tag and partial completion mode -- Francisco, urgent!
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A Soare |
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Re: find-tag and partial completion mode -- Francisco, urgent! |
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Wed, 2 May 2007 22:27:21 +0200 (CEST) |
> > in TAGS there is a line
> >
> > ../lwlib//TAGS,include
> >
> > and from here the error was born.
>
> The "issue" is just that if you have a file which contains a line
> like:
>
> include ../foo
>
> and you access the file through a symlink from a different directory,
> then ../foo (probably) does not exist.
You did understand. That's it.
>
> The solution is just to not access the TAGS file through a symlink
> (something which there is no need to do). Or put the absolute path in
> the TAGS file (which is then fragile if you want to move the sources
> somewhere else). That means changing the TAGS target in src/Makefile
> to specify an absolute path to lwlib rather than a relative one. No
> point, IMO.
>
> For some reason, this has turned back into Alin's previous "lwlib"
> thread, but now disguised as a partial-completion issue.
>
Yes, today's find-tags bug is due to the fact that in case of error the TAGS
file is not used at all.