kdevelop 3.3.5 requires ctags 5.6. Trying to build a ctags database for a C++ project I get from kdevelop: ctags -R --c++-types=+px --excmd=pattern --exclude=Makefile --exclude=. ctags: unrecognized option `--c++-types=+px` seems that --c++-types is a 5.6 flag. Problem is that there's no ebuild yet for 5.6! :-/
Yeah, this is totally retarded. It is caused by kdevelop hard-coding the binary "ctags". However, that points to(at least on my system) a ctags from the Emacs package... root@willbtop ctags2 :) $ equery belongs ctags [ Searching for file(s) ctags in *... ] app-editors/xemacs-21.4.17 (/usr/bin/ctags) Whereas, the file I want is "exuberant-ctags", that belongs to the "ctags" package: root@willbtop ctags2 :) $ equery files ctags [ Searching for packages matching ctags... ] * Contents of dev-util/ctags-5.5.4-r2: /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/exuberant-ctags Problem is... There is no "configuration" method I have found of telling kdevelop to use "exuberant-ctags" instead of "ctags". This breaks code complete on my version also (kdevelop-3.3.2). But a patch can be had... The file ctags2_part.cpp in the kdevelop project can be patched like so: --- ctags2_part.cpp 2005-09-10 02:21:56.000000000 -0600 +++ ctags2_part.cpp.bak 2006-12-06 16:27:19.000000000 -0700 @@ -132,9 +132,9 @@ */ KConfig * config = kapp->config(); config->setGroup( "CTAGS" ); - QString ctagsBinary = config->readEntry( "ctags binary", "ctags" ).stripWhiteSpace(); + // QString ctagsBinary = config->readEntry( "ctags binary", "ctags" ).stripWhiteSpace(); if ( ctagsBinary.isEmpty() ) - ctagsBinary = "ctags"; + ctagsBinary = "exuberant-ctags"; QString argsDefault = "-R --c++-types=+px --excmd=pattern --exclude=Makefile --exclude=."; And added to the kdevelop-ebuild-dohicky.
Actually, that is a lousy way of doing it (too much burn out)... How about this instead: --- ctags2_part.cpp 2005-09-10 02:21:56.000000000 -0600 +++ ctags2_part.cpp.bak 2006-12-06 16:41:47.000000000 -0700 @@ -132,9 +132,10 @@ */ KConfig * config = kapp->config(); config->setGroup( "CTAGS" ); - QString ctagsBinary = config->readEntry( "ctags binary", "ctags" ).stripWhiteSpace(); + // QString ctagsBinary = config->readEntry( "ctags binary", "ctags" ).stripWhiteSpace(); + QString ctagsBinary; if ( ctagsBinary.isEmpty() ) - ctagsBinary = "ctags"; + ctagsBinary = "exuberant-ctags"; QString argsDefault = "-R --c++-types=+px --excmd=pattern --exclude=Makefile --exclude=.";
Will fix in 3.4.0.
Fixed in 3.4.0, the default for new installs will be exuberant-ctags.
