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Subject:	RE: ctags recursion broken? [ATTN: ctags, xemacs-tags maintainers]
Date:	Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:05:26 -0600
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Alan Thompson wrote on 2012-12-11: 
> Looking at the link on StackOverflow (from 2010) it may be that the
> xemacs version of ctags is overwriting the default version in /bin.
> Could this be the culprit?

Yes, it looks like xemacs-tags and ctags packages both install
/usr/bin/ctags.exe:

http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=ctags.exe

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Alan Thompson
> <thompson2526 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> 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 DOT thrall AT flightsafety DOT 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 AT users DOT sourceforge DOT 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 DOT thrall AT flightsafety DOT com
>>> 
>>> 
>


--
Bryan Thrall
Principal Software Engineer
FlightSafety International
bryan DOT thrall AT flightsafety DOT com



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