Mail Archives: djgpp/2002/09/08/12:15:58
Hello, everybody,
I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new package on a SimTel.Net
mirror near you:
csc154b.zip --- binary package of cscope-15.4
csc154s.zip --- source package of cscope-15.4
Version 15.4 of cscope saw lots of bugfixes since the previous release of
15.3. If you had csc153*.zip installed, you probably should upgrade.
There are no major changes to the official sources you can find at
http://cscope.sourceforge.net. Only the autoconf setup had to be meddled
with to avoid some conflicts of autoconf-2.52 with the DJGPP port of BASH
--- I rebuilt the files using DJGPP autoconf-2.13.
What is it?
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cscope is a traditional Unix tool to navigate around in large-ish bodies
of C source code, using an interactive text-based interface, or
single-shot command line invocations of the program. You can find all
occurences of a variable, function, macro, or type name in all the source
files, or all calls of a function, or all functions called by a given
function, and get all the appropriate source lines listed on screen. You
can even do project-wide search-and-replace of text strings with it.
Whenever you think you're losing track of what you're doing in a larger
project, you may want to give it a try.
cscope can call your preferred editor to jump to the places found by a
search, and some editors (VIM, (X)emacs) can be told to use cscope as a
background tool similar to TAGS files.
Note you'll need some rather uncommon tools installed, too, to make the
most of this program. In particular, you quite probably won't have GNU ed
installed, yet, which is needed for search-and-replace. Be sure to read
%DJDIR%/doc/cscope/README.DJGPP in the binary package for details.
Instructions to build from source are in
%DJDIR%/contrib/cscope15.4/packages/MSDOS/README
If you have any problem with this, please consider telling me about it.
Preferrably via bug report posted to the SourceForge.net project pages,
but you can also mail me directly.
--
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.
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