Re: [PATCH] add cscope tags target

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Jesse Barnes wrote:

> > It looks like this rule will include source files which are not
> > incorporated by Makefile.am since it appears to simply recurse through
> > the source tree.  That means it may pick up source files from other
> > projects, or source files which are not in use.  Is that what you
> > intended?
>
> Kind of.  It looks like gtags does that, so I followed its example.  It might
> be better to only include those explicitly listed by Makefile.am, but I
> wasn't sure of the best way to get the full list of source files...  OTOH,
> maybe it's best to index the whole project.

Probably gtags is not implemented very well.

It seems like there should be a rule to collect the source file list 
from all Makefiles (including subordinate Makefiles) followed-up by 
another rule which actually executes cscope using the file list.

If the build is a VPATH build, then the source directory tree should 
be treated as read-only, with the cscope database being built in the 
build directory.  This allows multiple architectures to use cscope 
without trashing each other's databases (the cscope database format 
appears to be architecture dependent).

Indexing everything under the source tree doesn't make sense since the 
software may not be related, or there may replicated source files.

Bob
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