Bug 63135

Summary:	Wish for a better handling of CTAGS
Product:	[Applications] kdevelop	Reporter:	Jay <joerg>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KDevelop Developers <kdevelop-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	3.0.0a5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Jay 2003-08-22 21:30:25 UTC

Version:           3.0.0a5 (using KDE 3.1.3)
Installed from:    Gentoo
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r1, propolice)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-gentoo-r5

when i choose ctags from the tools menu, a dialog opens asking me if i want to generate a ctags database, i choose yes and nothing happens. no output to console by gideon. CTAGS version is 5.5 from 
http://ctags.sourceforge.net
gideon is from CVS a few days old.
gentoo linux 1.4

Comment 1 Jens Dagerbo 2003-08-23 03:18:04 UTC

 
Is ctags installed via portage? If so, you'll find that gentoo installs the binary as 
"exuberant-ctags" in order to not conflict with a different "ctags" binary (part of 
emacs, IIRC). An obvious workaround, if you don't already have /usr/bin/ctags is 
to create a symlink to /usr/bin/exuberant-ctags. (This is what I did.) 
 
In either case, this is at least bad behaviour on the part of Gideon. The ctags 
binary name apparently needs to be configurable, and it shouldn't fail without 
feedback. (Already in a todo somewhere..)

Comment 2 Jay 2003-08-23 03:58:42 UTC

Subject: Re:  ctags not working in customproject

Great, now it works. Thanks!
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Comment 3 Jens Dagerbo 2003-08-24 02:59:53 UTC

I'm changing this to "wishlist", as in "Wish for a better handling of CTAGS". :)

Comment 4 Amilcar do Carmo Lucas 2003-08-25 19:08:13 UTC

This seams to be related to: 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40053

Comment 5 Jens Dagerbo 2003-09-17 16:14:15 UTC

Gideon now notifies the user about a failure to create the tags file and informs about 
the necessary binary name - 'ctags'. 
 
Good enough for now. Closing.