Re: Bug in htags?

[Shigio Yamaguchi]

Hi,
> Apparently, the problem is due to using  perl dbm* commands on a FAT drive.
> 
> Please, see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg00267.html

Thank you for information.

I have understood. I'll add new item to GLOBAL FAQ like this:

Q. I'm running GLOBAL on Cygwin.
   When I ran htags, it returned the following message: 

        htags: cannot make cache file '/tmp/htagd79287565'.

   Any workaround?

A. It seems that some Cygwin perl have a bug and the dbmopen() doesn't work
   on FAT file system. You can take the following workaround until Cygwin perl
   is fixed.
   
   With 'no_cache_file' variable set, htags doesn't use dbmopen() any longer.
   Instead, more memory might be requred for execution of htags.

        gtags.conf:
        +-----------------------------------------------------
        |
        |...
        |common:\
        |       :skip=GPATH,GTAGS,GRTAGS,GSYMS,HTML/,tags,...
        |       :format=standard:\
        |       :no_cache_file:                 <== ADD

What do you think?
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