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

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and subject line Re: bug#42940: feature/native-comp; xref-find-definition 
searches compile location of el files instead of install location
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #42940,
regarding feature/native-comp; xref-find-definition searches compile location 
of el files instead of install location
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> feature/native-comp; xref-find-definition searches compile location of el files instead of install location
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> 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
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> 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
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> to use a different compile and install location for the el files. Best!
> Tom
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> 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
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> No definitions found for: shell-command
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> Tom Gillespie <tgbugs@gmail.com> writes:
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> > This is fixed at c818c29771d3cb51875643b2f6c894073e429dd2 for me so it
> > looks like that reversion did the trick. Thanks!
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> Thank you for reporting that!  Closing
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>   Andrea
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