Ross, Thanks for this, I will take a look at is as soon as I can ...
Simon On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 03:06, Ross Presser wrote: > [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" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
