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29.0.50; apropos-documentation with universal argument shows an error

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Message #28 received at 55492 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 55492 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
Subject: Re: bug#55492: 29.0.50; apropos-documentation with universal
 argument shows an error
Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 13:17:25 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Looking up the `load-path` should be of last resort because it's not
> reliable (e.g. when you have foo/bar/comp.elc it's not clear if it's
> emacs-lisp/comp.elc or semantic/wisent/comp.elc).

[...]

> The file name should be absolute for all files except the preloaded
> ones, and those should be relative to `lisp-directory` (because the
> preloaded files are loaded before we know where the Lisp files will be
> available at run-time).

Ah, right.  I'll adjust the patch to expand to lisp-directory instead
(although it probably doesn't make any practical difference since this
is only about built-in files indeed).

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