gnu global through emacs with TRAMP?

Can gnu global's emacs mode be made to work with TRAMP?

I have another machine that has a proprietary version control system I
am forced to keep my source on. I connect to it with emacs TRAMP from
my development machine in order to work.

I need to be able to set GTAGSROOT and GTAGSDBPATH also. On my local
machine I just have something like this in my emacs configurtion
  (setenv "GTAGSROOT" "path1")
  (setenv "GTAGSDBPATH" "path2")

however, I'm not sure how to make that work through TRAMP.