AW: global with xemacs on windows xp

[Frank Roland]

Hello,

I did not attache the files. Sorry.

Regards,
Frank

> 
> 
> Shigio Yamaguchi writes:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > > I tried to use global with xemacs on a windows xp machine, but 
> > it failed.
> > > I did the following:
> > >   In a source directory I executed in the shell gtags.
> > >   In the same direcory I opend a file and did M-x gtags-mode.
> > >   Then I did M-x gtags-visit-rootdir, ending up with an error.
> > ...
> > > The command global was found and executed. The real problem 
> is, that the
> > > call of global did not fill the buffer *rootdir* with data, although
> > > global -pr returns with the correct root directory if I try it 
> > on the shell.
> > > 
> > > What can I do to get it working?
> > 
> > I don't know XP environment but there is a work around.
> > 
> > The 'gtags-visit-rootdir' just set environment variable to the 
> > root directory
> > of the source tree. So, you can do the same job by hand. In UNIX 
> > environment,
> > 'gtags-visit-rootdir' is nearly equal to the following command line:
> > 
> >     $ global -pr
> >     /xxx/yyy/zzz
> >     $ export GTAGSROOT=/xxx/yyy/zzz
> >     $ xemacs
> > 
> > (I don't know the command line in XP environment.)
> 
> That would not help, because it is the call of global which 
> failed, not setting the environment variable. Thus executing 
> gtags-find-tag, or any othe function calling global, fails.
> 
> > 
> > By the way, if you execute xemacs in the root directory of 
> source code or
> > the directories under it, you need not set the variable.
> 
> Maybe, but I seldom start xemacs. I open it on Monday morning and 
> exit it on Friday evening ;-) (as long as windows allows me for this).
> Furthermore, I do not have one single project in a single 
> directory, but mostly have to switch between several.
> 
> > Good luck!
> 
> Thanks. I already had luck by finding a solution (workaround). It 
> works this way:
> 
>       1. I have a batch file (global.bat) that calls global.exe 
> with (almost) all arguments.
>       2. I have a patched gtags.el to use a variable 
> gtags-cmd-global, which can be set to global on "good" systems 
> and to global.bat on windoows systems.
> 
> I attached both files to this mail in case others have the same 
> problem. Maybe you adapt the path to gtags.el?
> 
> Still I wonder why the direct call to global.exe fails. Maybe 
> this is related to djgpp or xemacs. Or does global play with 
> stdout? I may examine that...
> 
> Kind regards,
> Frank

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