Ben Widawsky <b...@bwidawsk.net> writes:
> 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.
So I take it that's a reviewed-by and a tested-by tag from you?
>
>> ---
>> 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
>>
>>
--
Alex Bennée
