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Setting up separate ctags db's for C/C++ standard libs, boost, and third party libs

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apt-file is your friend on Ubuntu.

The following command will give you a list of all include files for Boost:

apt-file list -x "^libboost" | grep '/include/' | cut -f2 -d:

I'll leave the rest as an exercise for the reader!

Update: For completeness, call apt-file update if you have never used apt-file before.

Johnsyweb 2010-05-14 07:25:59

I tried that on my system and the initial `apt-file list -x "^libboost"` doesn't produce any output at all.

Robert S. Barnes 2010-05-14 11:00:04

That's odd. Was Boost installed using `apt`?What do you get if you try `apt-file list -vx '^libstdc++`

Johnsyweb 2010-05-16 13:25:57

@Johnsyweb: I used `sudo apt-get install libboost-*` to install boost. The command you just gave me spits out a list of deb repositories.

Robert S. Barnes 2010-05-18 08:54:13

I'd expect to see a load of deb repositories at the beginning of the verbose [`-v`] output but then I'd expect to see a list of all the files installed as part of `libstdc++6-4.4-doc` *et al*. I'm not sure why this is not working for you, I'm afraid. I've tested this on a number of Ubuntu 10.04 installations.

Johnsyweb 2010-05-18 10:17:58

@Johnsyweb: It one of those slap yourself on the forehead moments. First time I've ever run `apt-file` on the system. After reading some documentation I realized that I have to run `sudo apt-file update` before I can do any searches. Now it works.

Robert S. Barnes 2010-05-20 13:34:30

@Johnsyweb: ` apt-file list libc6-dev | grep '/include/' | cut -f2 -d:` works like a charm.

Robert S. Barnes 2010-05-20 13:44:08

I'm glad you've got it working. I have updated my post for the next person to find!

Johnsyweb 2010-05-20 20:34:32

@Johnsyweb: One more tweek - `cut` puts a space at the beginning of each line of output which makes ctags barf. Cut out `cut` and use this instead: `apt-file list libc6-dev | grep -o '/usr/include/.*h' > ~/.vim/tags/libc6-filelist`

Robert S. Barnes 2010-05-21 13:10:09

Nice solution! Well done!

Johnsyweb 2010-05-21 13:27:01

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