Re: some problems with latest cscope-15.6, the better way to generatecscope database change

From: Albert ARIBAUD
Date: Mon Aug 04 2008 - 02:49:46 EST


rae l a Ãcrit :
From: Denis ChengRq <crquan@xxxxxxxxx>

It's a problem about cscope target of kernel Makefile, and the cscope
plugin of emacs:
1. `make cscope` will generate cscope.files cscope.{in,po,}.out;
2. the cscope plugin expect a cscope.out.{in,po,};
3. the default `cscope -b` would generate cscope.{in,po,}.out;

There are three approach to solve it:
1. modify the cscope C code;
2. modify the cscope emacs plugin lisp code;
3. modify the Makefile;

I have tried to communicate with the cscope upstream, but later I
realize the third approach is most meaningful.

Er... If the plugin differs from the 'original' code, then I would tend to think that the plugin must be fixed, mustn't it? Because there might be other apps out there apart from the makefile and plugin which use cscope.po.out rather than cscope.out.po, so changing cscope would break lots of things. And changing the Makefile will make it only work with the plugin but would break other cscope-related apps.

Amicalement,
--
Albert.
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