RE: getting the source finding button in c-h f help buffers to work

[Drew Adams]

> when you do c-h f, emacs provides a link to the source.  i have always
> relied on this feature.
> 
> in my own code, i have always kept byte-compiled files in a separate
> directory from the source.  this has never been a problem.
> 
> in a recent version of emacs, perhaps a recent emacs 24 minor version,
> it seems that c-h f source links no longer work if you keep your
> byte-compiled files in a separate directory from the source files.
> more specifically, they no longer exist.
> 
> what i'd like to do is have them exist again, without having to change
> the way i load my byte-compiled files just to get them to exist again.
> 
> in other words, i want c-h f to work again, the way it did before the
> recent version of emacs.
> 
> i do not know why this occurs.  i just know that it stopped working.
> i did not change anything in my .emacs.
> i am using "24.4.1".

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