Re: find-tag and partial completion mode -- Francisco, urgent!

[A Soare <alinsoar@voila.fr>]

> >     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.