On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 04:55:06PM +0000, Wookey wrote: > On 2016-10-25 07:29 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > > FWIW, it worked fine in a test run I just did (on linux-4.9 rc 1), and > > last time I used it, it also worked fine with the emacs integration, so > > I don't recognise the crying from the rooftops about it being broken in > > Debian. > > It seems that it depends on the kernel source tree in use.
Just to clarify this here based on the details you provided when you later reported https://bugs.debian.org/844356, it turns out that it apparently doesn't depend on the kernel source tree or its version as such - what you saw happens when the source tree is polluted with infinite symlink loops, apparently due to a broken build script in this case. Which is something lots of things will choke on, and there is an easy workaround which most people should be using anyway if they are using this on codebases of this size, to skip uselessly indexing the bulk of the build tree where there is no source you want tags for. But thanks for the good report in that bug about _what_ really went wrong for you there. This is useful information. > ( I also found 844330 in the process, which is just a packaging update issue ) And thanks for the pointers to what changed with the emacs policy in this one too. That one was only evident if you actually had emacs installed (which I don't), and which nobody else had so far reported. It should be fixed in sid now though. Good bug reports are the foundation for getting things fixed, so thanks for setting a good example there. Cheers, Ron
