On 21-01-08 12:19:35, Alex Bennée wrote:
> GNU Global is another tags engine which is more like cscope in being
> able to support finding both references and definitions. You will be
> un-surprised to know it also integrates well with Emacs.
>
> The main benefit of integrating it into find-src-path is it takes less
> time to rebuild the database from scratch when you have a lot of build
> directories under your source tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org>
It might be worth mentioning that the Linux kernel has supported this for a long
time now (10+ years).
Having switched to gtags about 3 years ago, I think it's summarily better and
would really like this to get merged.
> ---
> Makefile | 9 ++++++++-
> .gitignore | 3 +++
> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index fb9923ff22..66eec99685 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -253,6 +253,13 @@ ctags:
> rm -f "$(SRC_PATH)/"tags
> $(find-src-path) -exec ctags -f "$(SRC_PATH)/"tags --append {} +
>
> +.PHONY: gtags
> +gtags:
> + rm -f "$(SRC_PATH)/"GTAGS
> + rm -f "$(SRC_PATH)/"GRTAGS
> + rm -f "$(SRC_PATH)/"GPATH
> + $(find-src-path) | gtags -f -
> +
> .PHONY: TAGS
> TAGS:
> rm -f "$(SRC_PATH)/"TAGS
> @@ -279,7 +286,7 @@ help:
> $(call print-help,all,Build all)
> $(call print-help,dir/file.o,Build specified target only)
> $(call print-help,install,Install QEMU, documentation and tools)
> - $(call print-help,ctags/TAGS,Generate tags file for editors)
> + $(call print-help,ctags/gtags/TAGS,Generate tags file for editors)
> $(call print-help,cscope,Generate cscope index)
> $(call print-help,sparse,Run sparse on the QEMU source)
> @echo ''
> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
> index b32bca1315..75a4be0724 100644
> --- a/.gitignore
> +++ b/.gitignore
> @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
> cscope.*
> tags
> TAGS
> +GPATH
> +GRTAGS
> +GTAGS
> *~
> *.ast_raw
> *.depend_raw
> --
> 2.20.1
>
>
