cscope for files which are symlinks

Question

I have a source directory with several files. Some of them are symlinks to other files.

I created a cscope.files file. But when I execute cscope. It complains for the files that are symlinks:

cscope: cannot find file /home/bla/source/file.cc

I think it's not very good, but maybe the correct way to go is to change the "find" script, to just write the destination of the symlink instead?

Answer 1

Currently I'm using:

# Write only the files which are NOT symlinks
find `pwd` \( \( -iname "*.c" -o -iname "*.cc" -o -iname "*.h" \) -and \( -not -type l \) \) -print > cscope.files
# Add the target of the symlink for all files matching the right extension, and are symlinks
find `pwd` \( \( -iname "*.c" -o -iname "*.cc" -o -iname "*.h" \) -and -type l \) -printf "%l\n"  >> cscope.files

But this seems like a terrible solution. Still looking for a better one

Answer 2

I think you can use the command to find all real paths in a folder that you searched

find -L [your searched folder] -name [your searched pattern] -exec realpath {} \; >> cscope.files

For example, if I would like to add developed folder and linux kernel header to cscope.files, I will the these commands:

find -L `pwd` -iname "*.c" -o -iname "*.h" > cscope.files
find -L /usr/src/linux-headers-3.19.0-15-generic/ -iname '*.h' -exec realpath {} \; >> cscope.files

I hope the answer can help you.