gtags (1)
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NAME
gtags - create tag files for globalSYNOPSIS
gtags [-ciIOqvw][-d tag-file][-f file][dbpath]DESCRIPTION
Gtags is used to create tag files for global(1).Gtags recursively collects source files under the current directory, picks up symbols and writes the cross-reference data into the tag files ('GTAGS', 'GRTAGS' and 'GPATH').
If 'gtags.files' exists in the current directory or a file is specified by the -f option, target files are limited by it. Lines starting with '. ' are comments.
C, yacc, Assembly, Java, C++ and PHP source files are supported. Files whose names end in '.c', '.h' are assumed to be C source files. Files whose names end in '.y' are assumed to be yacc source files. Files whose names end in '.s', '.S' are assumed to be Assembly source files. Files whose names end in '.java' are assumed to be Java source files. Files whose names end in '.c++', '.cc', '.hh', '.cpp', '.cxx', '.hxx', '.hpp', '.C', '.H' are assumed to be C++ source files. Files whose names end in '.php', '.php3', '.phtml' are assumed to be PHP source files. Other files are assumed to be text files. Gtags does not treat binary files.
OPTIONS
The following options are available:
- --accept-dotfiles
- Accept files and directories whose names begin with a dot. By default, gtags ignores them.
- -c, --compact
- Make 'GTAGS' in compact format. This option does not influence 'GRTAGS', because that is always made in compact format.
- --config[=name]
- Print the value of config variable name. If name is not specified then print all names and values. In addition to the variables listed in the ENVIRONMENT section, you can refer to install directories by read only variables: bindir, libdir, datadir, localstatedir and sysconfdir.
- -d, --dump tag-file
- Dump a tag file as text to the standard output. Output format is 'key<tab>data'. This is for debugging.
- --explain
- Explain handling files.
- -f, --file file
- Give a list of candidates of target files. Files which are not on the list are ignored. The argument file can be set to '-' to accept a list of files from the standard input. File names must be separated by newline. To make the list you may use find(1), which has rich options for selecting files.
- --gtagsconf file
- Set environment variable GTAGSCONF to file.
- --gtagslabel label
- Set environment variable GTAGSLABEL to label.
- -I, --idutils
- In addition to tag files, make ID database for idutils(1).
- -i, --incremental
- Update tag files incrementally. It's better to use global(1) with the -u command.
- -O, --objdir
- Use BSD-style objdir as the location of tag files. If '$MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX' directory exists, gtags creates '$MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX/<current directory>' directory and makes tag files in it. If dbpath is specified, this option is ignored.
- --single-update file
- Update tag files for a single file. It is considered that file was added, updated or deleted, and there is no change in other files. This option implies the -i option.
- --skip-unreadable
- Skip unreadable files.
- --sqlite3
- Use Sqlite 3 API to make tag files. By default, BSD/DB 1.85 API is used. To use this option, you need to invoke configure script with --with-sqlite3 in the build phase.
- --statistics
- Print statistics information.
- -q, --quiet
- Quiet mode.
- -v, --verbose
- Verbose mode.
- -w, --warning
- Print warning messages.
- dbpath
- The directory in which tag files are generated. The default is the current directory.
EXAMPLES
$ ls -F
Makefile src/ lib/
$ gtags -v
$ global -x main
main 10 src/main.c main (argc, argv) {
FILES
- 'GTAGS'
- Tag file for definitions.
- 'GRTAGS'
- Tag file for references.
- 'GPATH'
- Tag file for source files.
- 'gtags.conf', '$HOME/.globalrc'
- See gtags.conf(5).
- 'gtags.files'
- The list of candidates of target files.
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the execution of gtags:
- GTAGSCACHE
- The size of the B-tree cache. The default is 50000000 (bytes).
- GTAGSCONF
- Configuration file.
- GTAGSFORCECPP
- If this variable is set, each file whose suffix is '.h' is treated as a C++ source file.
- GTAGSFORCEENDBLOCK
- If this variable is set, each } at the first column brings end of block of 0 level.
- GTAGSLABEL
- Configuration label. The default is 'default'.
- GTAGSLOGGING
- If this variable is set, '$GTAGSLOGGING' is used as the path name of a log file. There is no default value.
- GTAGS_COMMANDLINE
- This variable can only be referenced from the hook (see gtags_hook). Gtags sets its own effective command line to this variable before calling the hook. Each argument is separated by whitespace, and real whitespace is represented as '%20'. This is read only.
- GTAGS_OPTIONS
- The value of this variable is inserted in the head of arguments.
- MAKEOBJDIR
- If this variable is set, '$MAKEOBJDIR' is used as the name of BSD-style objdir. The default is 'obj'.
- MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
- If this variable is set, '$MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX' is used as the prefix of BSD-style objdir. The default is '/usr/obj'.
- TMPDIR
- The location used to stored temporary files. The default is '/tmp'.
CONFIGURATION
The following configuration variables affect the execution of gtags. You can see the default value for each variable with the --config option.
- gtags_parser (comma separated list)
- Specify the mapping of language names and plug-in parsers. Each part delimited by the comma consists of the language name, a colon, the shared object path, an optional colon followed by a function name. If the function name is not specified, 'parser' is assumed. As a special exception, gtags collects values from multiple gtags_parser variables. For these mappings, the first match is adopted.
- gtags_hook (command line)
- Specify a command line which should be executed at the beginning of gtags after loading configuration file. You can use this hook to update 'gtags.files' dynamically. "./" in it always means the project root directory, since gtags is always invoked there.
- icase_path (boolean)
- Ignore case distinctions in the path. Suffixes check is affected by this capability.
- langmap (comma separated list)
-
Language mapping. Each comma-separated map consists of
the language name, a colon, and a list of file extensions.
As a special exception, gtags collects values
from multiple langmap variables.
For these mappings, the first match is adopted.
Default mapping is:
'c:.c.h,yacc:.y,asm:.s.S,java:.java,cpp:.c++.cc.hh.cpp.cxx.hxx.hpp.C.H,php:.php.php3.phtml'. - skip (comma separated list)
-
Gtags skips files and directories which are given in this list.
As a special exception, gtags collects values from multiple
skip variables.
If the value ends with '/', it is assumed as a directory and
gtags skips all files under it.
The value may include glob patterns (*, ?, [...], [!...], [^...]).
If the value starts with '/', it is assumed a relative path name from the root directory of the project. You cannot use glob patterns for a path name. However, this direction is out-of-date, and is not recommended. Instead, you can use -f option which can be combined with find(1). Since find(1) has rich options to select files, you can do everything. Additionally, this technique can also be applied to any other tagging systems like ctags(1), cscope(1), etc.
Skip list is also effective when you use the -f or 'gtags.files'.
DIAGNOSTICS
Gtags exits with a non-0 value if an error occurred, 0 otherwise.Note that files created by gtags with a non-zero exit code should be considered corrupted.
SEE ALSO
global(1), htags(1), gtags.conf(5).
GNU GLOBAL source code tag system
(www.gnu.org/software/global
BUG
'GTAGS' and 'GRTAGS' are very large. In advance of using this command, check the space of your disk.Assembly support is far from complete. It extracts only ENTRY() and ALTENTRY() from source file. Probably valid only for FreeBSD and Linux kernel source.
There is no concurrency control about tag files.