Re: [PATCH] kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope

From: Michal Marek
Date: Mon Nov 30 2009 - 12:13:55 EST


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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