getting the source finding button in c-h f help buffers to work

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

when you do c-h f, emacs provides a link to the source.  i have always
relied on this feature.

in my own code, i have always kept byte-compiled files in a separate
directory from the source.  this has never been a problem.

in a recent version of emacs, perhaps a recent emacs 24 minor version,
it seems that c-h f source links no longer work if you keep your
byte-compiled files in a separate directory from the source files.
more specifically, they no longer exist.

what i'd like to do is have them exist again, without having to change
the way i load my byte-compiled files just to get them to exist again.

in other words, i want c-h f to work again, the way it did before the
recent version of emacs.

i do not know why this occurs.  i just know that it stopped working.
i did not change anything in my .emacs.

i am using "24.4.1".

thanks.

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