Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:49:23 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: TAGS target in sys/Makefile? Message-ID: <20010124104923.A332@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20010124184459.D37060@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:44:59PM %2B1030 References: <20010123142121.L414@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010124075841.C7190@hand.dotat.at> <20010124184459.D37060@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:44:59PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 24 January 2001 at 7:58:41 +0000, Tony Finch wrote: > > Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: > >> > >> There are a number of tools people can use to find their way around > >> the kernel sources: I know of at least ctags, etags and cscope. It > >> would be nice to have build targets for the corresponding data files > >> in sys/Makefile. > > > > Since I dig around the rest of the source tree more than I do the > > kernel, it would be useful if these targets could work over the whole > > source tree, or just parts of it. > > That's a different issue. Most userland code is relatively > self-contained. When you're browsing through df(1), for example, > you're probably not interested in similar names in syslogd(8). Yes, but you might be interested in (1) tags from df itself, or (2) tags from libraries df uses (as in "hm.. where was this again.. was it in libutil, or plain libc.. and which subdir of libc.."). (1) is easily fixed by running your favorite tag-creating tool inside the directory you're currently browsing.. how about (2) though? G'luck, Peter -- I am the thought you are now thinking. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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