The globalrc file

[Suresh Govindachar]

Hello,

Am having trouble getting global to read and use .globalrc file.  Here 
are the steps:

  1) copied <install_dir>/share/gtags/gtags.conf to 
c:\home\suresh\.globalrc

  2) set GTAGSCONF=c:\home\suresh\.globalrc

  3) modified c:\home\suresh\.globalrc by adding 3 lines to specify 
GTAGSDBPATH, GTAGSFORCECPP, and GTAGSROOT as follows:

      gtags:\
        :GTAGSDBPATH=c\:\\tmp:\
        :GTAGSFORCECPP\
        :GTAGSROOT=c\:\\home\\suresh:\
        :tc=common:\
        :tc=builtin-parser:
      builtin-parser:\

  4) touch c:\tmp\GTAGS

  5) cd c:\tmp

  6) c:\tmp>c:\opt\global\bin\global.exe -p -v
     checking c:/tmp/GTAGS
     GTAGS found at 'c:/tmp/GTAGS'.

  7) cd c:\home\suresh

  8) c:\home\suresh>c:\opt\global\bin\global.exe -p -v
     checking c:/home/suresh/GTAGS
     checking c:/home/suresh/obj/GTAGS
     checking c:/home/GTAGS
     checking c:/home/obj/GTAGS
     checking c://GTAGS
     checking c://obj/GTAGS
     global: GTAGS not found.

   9) c:\home\suresh>c:\opt\global\bin\global.exe -p -v --gtagsconf 
.globalrc
      c:\opt\global\bin\global.exe: unrecognized option '--gtagsconf'
      Usage: global [-aCdEGilmnNqrsStTvx][-e] pattern
             global -c[diImNoOPrsT] prefix
             global -f[aCdlnqrsStvx][-L file-list] files
             global -g[aCEGilmnoOqStvVx][-L file-list][-e] pattern [files]
             global -I[aCilmnqStvx][-e] pattern
             global -P[aCEGilmnoOqStvVx][-e] pattern
             global -p[qrv]
             global -u[qv]

Questions:

(A) In step 8, why wasn't value of GTAGSDBPATH and GTAGSROOT specified 
in .globalrc files used?

(B) In step 9, why didn't global accept --gtagsconf option?

Thanks,

--Suresh