YCM works correctly when 'out' directory is a symlink.

tools/vim/chromium.ycm_extra_conf.py

Index: tools/vim/chromium.ycm_extra_conf.py
diff --git a/tools/vim/chromium.ycm_extra_conf.py b/tools/vim/chromium.ycm_extra_conf.py
index f26d4beae4af03e0a1ebb537b912d1acdfd90f92..e5396e3b19b756f071032d4ee0dd7f543ede2151 100644
--- a/tools/vim/chromium.ycm_extra_conf.py
+++ b/tools/vim/chromium.ycm_extra_conf.py
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 
 
 import os
+import os.path
 import subprocess
 
 
@@ -165,13 +166,13 @@ def GetClangCommandFromNinjaForFilename(chrome_root, filename):
         # try to use the default flags.
         return chrome_flags
 
-  # Ninja needs the path to the source file from the output build directory.
-  # Cut off the common part and /.
-  subdir_filename = filename[len(chrome_root)+1:]
-  rel_filename = os.path.join('..', '..', subdir_filename)
-
   out_dir = GetNinjaOutputDirectory(chrome_root)
 
+  # Ninja needs the path to the source file relative to the output build
+  # directory.
+  rel_filename = os.path.relpath(os.path.realpath(filename),

[eroman, 2014/08/29 19:23:22]

much nicer!

+                                 os.path.realpath(out_dir))
+
   # Ask ninja how it would build our source file.
   p = subprocess.Popen(['ninja', '-v', '-C', out_dir, '-t',
                         'commands', rel_filename + '^'],