Re: [Ctags] Creating a new parser

[Darren H. <dar...@te...>]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Richard F. Ashwell III wrote:

> I wanted to add a new parser to ctags for the SQR language.  I wanted to
> create a simple test to see if I could do it so I did the following:
> ...
> ignoring dphr0034.sqr (unknown language)
> sorting tag file
> system ("sort -u -o tags tags")
>  
> For some reason my SQR parser isn't installing.  Because it is probably
> important I did this under a Cygwin environment.  
>  
> Does anyone have an Idea of where I went wrong.

Everything you did is correct. If you run "ctags --version"
you will not see "+regex" in the list of optional compiled features.
The problem is with the Cygwin environment. If you look at the
output from running "configure", you will probably see a line that
states:

checking if regcomp works... no

Earlier versions of Cygwin had a broken implementation of the
regular expression compiler. I added a test to configure which
disabled regex support in such a case.

I just installed the current version of Cygwin and found that its
regex support is now working, so I recommend that you upgrade Cygwin
and try again.

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Darren Hiebert <da...@hi...>
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