On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:42:59PM +0200, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > On Mon, 2014-04-07 at 06:42 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 03:16:15PM +0200, Yann Droneaud wrote: > > > > > > [ ... ] > > > > > > cscope reports error when generating the cross-reference database: > > > > > > $ make ALLSOURCE_ARCHS=all O=./obj-cscope/ cscope > > > GEN cscope > > > cscope: cannot find > > > file > > > /home/ydroneaud/src/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/copyuser_power7.S > > > cscope: cannot find > > > file > > > /home/ydroneaud/src/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/memcpy_64.S > > > cscope: cannot find > > > file > > > /home/ydroneaud/src/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/memcpy_power7.S > > > cscope: cannot find > > > file > > > /home/ydroneaud/src/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/copyuser_64.S > > > > > > And when calling cscope from ./obj-cscope/ directory, it reports errors > > > too. > > > > > > Hopefully it doesn't stop it from working, so I'm still able to use > > > cscope to browse kernel sources. > > > > > No, it won't stop it from working, it just won't search those files. I > > don't > > recall exactly the reason, but IIRC there was a big discussion long ago > > about > > symlinks and our ability to support them (around version 1.94 I think). We > > decided to not handle symlinks, as they would either point outside our > > search > > tree, which we didn't want to include, or would point to another file in the > > search tree, which made loading them pointless (as we would cover the > > search in > > the pointed file). > > So there are valid reasons to not process those filesystem > entries. Would it be useful to not emit the warnings then? Or > to silent those warnings when the user knows it's perfectly legal > to skip those filesytem entries? Like what you can do with the > ctags(1) command and its --links option. > I would see no problem with an option to do that. I'd like to make it opt-in, so that people who want to know about symlink issues will still see them, but I'd be supportive of an option to quiet them Neil
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