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Re: ctags recursion broken?
Hi - Yes, I'm sure:
> find /bin -name '*tags*' | xargs ls -ldF
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alathompson Domain Users 85504 Jan 31 2009 /bin/ctags.exe*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alathompson Domain Users 83968 Jan 31 2009 /bin/etags.exe*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alathompson Domain Users 5411 Dec 21 2011 /bin/ocamltags*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alathompson Domain Users 68608 Jan 31 2009 /bin/ootags.exe*
> ls -ldF /bin/ls /bin/vim /bin/gcc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alathompson Domain Users 21 Oct 18 12:20 /bin/gcc ->
/etc/alternatives/gcc*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alathompson Domain Users 101902 Feb 6 2012 /bin/ls*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alathompson Domain Users 21 Oct 18 12:48 /bin/vim ->
/etc/alternatives/vim*
>
> uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 ALAN-THO-LAP 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) 2012-07-20 22:55 i686 Cygwin
>
One can see from the timestamp on the links for gcc and vim that I
installed Cygwin on 10/18/2012. However, it seems that both ctags and
etags are old versions of the program (circa 2007) and are not the
Exuberant Ctags version. However, the GNU documentation here:
http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Exuberant_Ctags clearly lists the
Exuberant Ctags, although it has only been updated as of 2004.
However, looking here:
http://cygwin.com/packages/ctags/ctags-5.8-1-src we see that cygwin
has Exuberant Ctags 5.8. Perhaps it is just a packaging issue that
caused the old one to be present and Exuberant Ctags 5.8 to be not
present?
You can see from this thread:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2634001/any-idea-why-ctags-wont-recurse-on-cygwin/13810472#13810472
that I'm not the only one who stumbled onto this problem.
Where should we go from here? Could it just be a packaging problem?
Alan Thompson
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Thrall, Bryan
<bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com> wrote:
>
> Are you sure you're using the ctags you think you are?
>
> $ ctags --help
> Exuberant Ctags 5.8, Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Darren Hiebert
> Compiled: Dec 11 2009, 11:42:40
> Addresses: <dhiebert@users.sourceforge.net>,
> http://ctags.sourceforge.net
> Optional compiled features: +wildcards, +regex, +internal-sort
>
> Usage: ctags [options] [file(s)]
> <snip>
> -R Equivalent to --recurse.
> <snip>
>
> Hope this helps!
> --
> Bryan Thrall
> Principal Software Engineer
> FlightSafety International
> bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com
>
>
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