Hi - As a long-time user of Cygwin and Exuberant ctags, it seems that the current version of ctags on Cygwin is broken. Specifically,
> /bin/ctags -R . /bin/ctags: skipping .: it is not a regular file. Normally, ctags should recursively descend and process all files from the current directory. I downloaded version 5.8 of Exuberant Ctags from http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ and it works as expected. Upon closer inspection, it appears that Cygwin has a different version of ctags (not Exuberant Ctags!) that does not support recursion at all! Specifically, > ctags -V ctags (standalone 21.4.22) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is distributed under the terms in ETAGS.README > > ctags --help Usage: ctags [options] [[regex-option ...] file-name] ... These are the options accepted by ctags. You may use unambiguous abbreviations for the long option names. A - as file name means read names from stdin (one per line). Absolute names are stored in the output file as they are. Relative ones are stored relative to the output file's directory. <snip> -R, --no-regex Don't create tags from regexps for the following files. <snip> > So the -R no longer means recursion, and there is no --recurse option. Given that Exuberant Ctags is distributed under the GPL and is very powerful, it seems that it would be prudent to include it in Cygwin. I could even volunteer to be the package maintainer, if desired. How should we proceed? Thank you, Alan Thompson -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
