Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 09:03:35 +1200 From: Simon Liddington Subject: Re: Possible problem with ctags In-reply-to: <200306041506.h54F66K27417@gatekeeper.tait.co.nz> To: Ross Presser Cc: mecklen@cimsoft.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <200306050903.35931.sjl@zepler.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <16072.19047.756000.703547@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <200306041506.h54F66K27417@gatekeeper.tait.co.nz> Ross, Thanks for this, I will take a look at is as soon as I can ... Simon On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 03:06, Ross Presser wrote: > [posted and mailed to Simon Liddington ] > > Robert Mecklenburg wrote in > > news:16072.19047.756000.703547@gargle.gargle.HOWL: > > I'm getting a strange error when I run ctags: > > > > 5 osaka:cimsoft$ /bin/ctags -e --recurse> > > ctags: cannot open temporary file : No such file or directo> ry > > [Exi> t 1] > > > > If I run this under strace I get: > > [snip] > > > My conclusion: Maybe the most recent release of ctags has a > > compiled-in default directory of .../liddins/... and that this > > directory is used if the TMPDIR environment variable is otherwise > > undefined. > > > > Comments? > > I can confirm this discovery. In fact, that is why I just started up > news, to report the problem. It is present with this version: > > Exuberant Ctags 5.5, Copyright (C) 1996-2003 Darren Hiebert > Compiled: Apr 14 2003, 10:16:41 > Addresses: , > http://ctags.sourceforge.net > Optional compiled features: +wildcards, +regex, +internal-sort > > (By the way, although this version announces itself as 5.5, it is really > 5.5.3 according to /setup.exe.) > > The full compiled-in directory it is trying to use, as found by both > FileMon and strings, is: > > /mnt/c/DOCUME~1/liddins/LOCALS~1/Temp > > The obvious workaround is "export TMPDIR=$TMP" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/