[posted and mailed to Simon Liddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
Robert Mecklenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I'm getting a strange error when I run ctags:
>
> 5 osaka:cimsoft$ /bin/ctags -e --recurse>
> ctags: cannot open temporary file : No such file or directo> ry
> [Exi> t 1]
>
> If I run this under strace I get:
[snip]
> My conclusion: Maybe the most recent release of ctags has a
> compiled-in default directory of .../liddins/... and that this
> directory is used if the TMPDIR environment variable is otherwise
> undefined.
>
> Comments?
I can confirm this discovery. In fact, that is why I just started up
news, to report the problem. It is present with this version:
Exuberant Ctags 5.5, Copyright (C) 1996-2003 Darren Hiebert
Compiled: Apr 14 2003, 10:16:41
Addresses: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
http://ctags.sourceforge.net
Optional compiled features: +wildcards, +regex, +internal-sort
(By the way, although this version announces itself as 5.5, it is really
5.5.3 according to /setup.exe.)
The full compiled-in directory it is trying to use, as found by both
FileMon and strings, is:
/mnt/c/DOCUME~1/liddins/LOCALS~1/Temp
The obvious workaround is "export TMPDIR=$TMP"
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