Suggestion

[Jean-Marc Bourguet]

Hi developpers of Global,

Would it be possible to make global programs search for gtags.conf in 
the configured --sysconfdir?  It would ease the use in networked 
environment where global is installed for all the network.

I'd suggest searching that place after the machine specific /etc/gtags.conf.

The modification to configpath in libutil/conf.c would be easy:

      else if (test("r", OLD_DEBIANCONF))
          strbuf_puts(sb, OLD_DEBIANCONF);
>     else if (test("r", SYSCONFCONF))
>         strbuf_puts(sb, SYSCONFCONF);
>     else if (test("r", OLD_SYSCONFCONF))
>         strbuf_puts(sb, OLD_SYSCONFCONF);
      else
          return NULL;

but my knowledge of autoconf is not good enough to arrange for configure 
set SYSCONFCONF and OLD_SYSCONFCONF automatically.

Adding

#define SYSCONFCONF     "@sysconfdir@/gtags.conf"
#define OLD_SYSCONFCONF "@sysconfgir@/global.conf"

to conf.h, renaming it conf.h.in and adding libutil/conf.h.in in 
configure.ac doesn't work if one doesn't specify --sysconfdir 
(sysconfdir is replaced by ${prefix}/etc instead of having ${prefix} 
expanded).

Yours,

--
Jean-Marc Bourguet