Hi Branden,
"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> writes:
> Nope.
>
> $ make -C build TAGS
> make: Entering directory '/home/branden/src/GIT/groff/build'
> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/branden/src/GIT/groff/build'
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'src/utils/pfbtops/dummy.cpp', needed by
> 'tags-am'. Stop.
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/branden/src/GIT/groff/build'
> make: *** [Makefile:13257: tags-recursive] Error 1
> make: Leaving directory '/home/branden/src/GIT/groff/build'
>
> Is seems like there is _some_ sort of infrastructure there; I didn't ask
> for no "tags-am" prerequisite. Is this a bug?
"tags-am" is an internal target used by Automake. The "TAGS" target
conditionally depends on "tags-am" or another target if SUBDIRS are
used.
Looking at this comment:
$ grep -FB2 dummy.cpp src/utils/pfbtops/pfbtops.am
# We use the following trick to force the use of C++ compiler
# See the Automake manual, "Libtool Convenience Libraries"
nodist_EXTRA_pfbtops_SOURCES = src/utils/pfbtops/dummy.cpp
It looks like this trick also breaks all of the different tags targets,
since it adds a non-existent file to $(am__tagged_files).
You can probably fix it by creating an empty file
src/utils/pfbtops/dummy.cpp.
>> I like GNU global. :)
>
> You're the first person I've heard mention it beyond GNU release
> announcements, which I generally file away for later investigation and
> then never get around to. Give me the elevator pitch, as it applies to
> you. :)
Truthfully, I probably use 'grep -r' a bit more. But global is nice when
that catches too many irrelevant matches.
In coreutils:
$ $ make GTAGS
here=`CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && pwd` \
&& CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . \
&& gtags -i "$here"
Finding references to the find_mount_point function:
$ global -rx find_mount_point
find_mount_point 1426 src/df.c char *mp = find_mount_point
(point, statp);
find_mount_point 19 src/find-mount-point.h extern char *find_mount_point
(char const *, struct stat const *)
find_mount_point 1020 src/stat.c if ((mp = find_mount_point
(filename, statp)))
Finding the definition:
$ global -dx find_mount_point
find_mount_point 30 src/find-mount-point.c find_mount_point (char const
*file, struct stat const *file_stat)
That is all I need 99% of the time. There are integrations for Emacs and
other editors, but typing them in a terminal isn't slow enough for me to
be motivated enough to figure out keybinds for them. :)
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