Re: The globalrc file

On 6/13/2014 6:35 PM, Shigio YAMAGUCHI wrote:
 >On 6/13/2014 2:42 AM, Hideki IWAMOTO wrote:
 > Hi. Suresh.
 >>
 >>> (B) In step 9, why didn't global accept --gtagsconf option?
 >>
 >>  It seems that you are using an executable which is not
 >>  supporting --gtagsconf.  What is the version of GLOBAL which
 >>  you are using?

Jason Hood's build for win32;  on June 13, 2014 he released
version 6.3 which does recognize --gtagsconf
(http://adoxa.altervista.org/global/ )

 >>> (A) In step 8, why wasn't value of GTAGSDBPATH and GTAGSROOT
 >>>     specified in .globalrc files used?
 >>
 >>  This is reproducible using global-6.3.
 >>
 >   You are right.
 >   I will change the online manuals as follows:
 >
 >   Addition to these, the variables listed in the ENVIRONMENT
 >   section except for GTAGSCONF and GTAGSLABEL
 >   are also available as configuration variables.
 >   |
 >   v
 >   Addition to these, the variables listed in the ENVIRONMENT
 >   section except for GTAGSCONF, GTAGSLABEL,
 >   GTAGSROOT and GTAGSDBPATH
 >   ============================= (Added)
 >   are also available as configuration variables.

I understand why GTAGSCONF and GTAGSLABEL cannot be specified
in the globalrc file;  what's the reason why GTAGSROOT and
GTAGSDBPATH are not supported via globalrc file?

Thanks.