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 > <thompson2...@gmail.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.thr...@flightsafety.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: >>> <dhieb...@users.sourceforge.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.thr...@flightsafety.com >>> >>> > -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- 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