Re: [PATCH] Makefile: Fix cscope issues on MacOS and soft links

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> writes:

> This patch fixes actually two issues with 'make cscope'.
>
> Firstly, it fixes the command for MacOS "find" command as MacOS will append the
> full path of "$(SRC_PATH)/" before each found entry, then after the final "./"
> replacement trick it'll look like (e.g., "qapi/qmp-dispatch.c"):
>
>   /qapi/qmp-dispatch.c
>
> Which will point to the root directory instead.
>
> Fix it by simply remove the "/" in "$(SRC_PATH)/" of "find-src-path", then
> it'll work for at least both Linux and MacOS.
>
> The other OS-independent issue is to start proactively ignoring soft links when
> generating tags, otherwise by default on master branch we'll see this error
> when "make cscope":
>
> cscope: cannot find file subprojects/libvhost-user/include/atomic.h
>
> This patch should fix the two issues altogether.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> ---
>  Makefile | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 401c623a65..5562a9b464 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -229,7 +229,8 @@ distclean: clean
>  	rm -f linux-headers/asm
>  	rm -Rf .sdk
>  
> -find-src-path = find "$(SRC_PATH)/" -path "$(SRC_PATH)/meson" -prune -o \( -name "*.[chsS]" -o -name "*.[ch].inc" \)
> +find-src-path = find "$(SRC_PATH)" -path "$(SRC_PATH)/meson" -prune -o \
> +	-type l -prune -o \( -name "*.[chsS]" -o -name "*.[ch].inc" \)

The second half of the change causes my "make gtags" to descend down
build directories and complain about unindexed files.

>  .PHONY: ctags
>  ctags:


-- 
Alex Bennée