linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope

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Date:	Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:13:47 +0100
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope

On 26.11.2009 13:34, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Some tools (like my favourite editor, vim) can't handle relative
> paths from cscope as soon as cscope.out is no longer in $PWD. Use
> absolute paths when generating cscope.files, which seems to be
> the recommended way to generate cscope.out, anyway (at least according
> to cscope.sf.net).

But it will fail if you rename the source directory. I'm not sure what
is worse, I myself don't use cscope much. Fixing vim would be the ideal
solution of course (it already handles ../tags fine).

Michal
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