Subject: bug#42940: closed (Re: bug#42940: feature/native-comp; xref-find-definition searches compile location of el files instead of install location)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 07:45:02 +0000

Your bug report

#42940: feature/native-comp; xref-find-definition searches compile location of el files instead of install location

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#42940: feature/native-comp; xref-find-definition searches compile location of el files instead of install location
From: Andrea Corallo <[email-masked]>
To: Tom Gillespie <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], "Andrea Corallo via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 07:44:35 +0000
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Tom Gillespie <[email-masked]> writes:

> This is fixed at c818c29771d3cb51875643b2f6c894073e429dd2 for me so it
> looks like that reversion did the trick. Thanks!

Thank you for reporting that!  Closing

  Andrea

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Subject: feature/native-comp; xref-find-definition searches compile location of el files instead of install location
From: Tom Gillespie <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], Andrea Corallo <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:22:22 -0700
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Hi Andrea,
    On feature/native-comp at 8a931a97b8dd19a38d6f719f810280a07ba76438
I am unable to use xref-find-definition to resolve a large subset of functions
including shell-command. This was not an issue at
9f01ce6327af886f26399924a9aadf16cdd4fd9f and is not an issue on master at
a566e409d0d962d3c2870691175836da22c31111. Repro is below and the messages
point to the cause being that xref-find-definitions is now looking in
the location where
the el files were during compilation instead of where they have been
installed. This
will cause problems for anyone distributing emacs in addition to distros where
compilation is sandboxed. To reproduce it on your end I suspect that
you will need
to use a different compile and install location for the el files. Best!
Tom

Repro:
emacs -q -batch --no-site-file --eval "(xref-find-definitions 'shell-command)"
Stdout:
No library /var/tmp/portage/app-editors/emacs-28.0.9999-r1/work/emacs/lisp/simple.el
in search path
No definitions found for: shell-command