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diff --git a/devel/cscope/DESCR b/devel/cscope/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..05a5f7424d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/cscope/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +cscope is an interactive, screen-oriented tool that allows the user to +browse through C source files for specified elements of code. + +By default, cscope examines the C (.c and .h), lex (.l), and yacc (.y) +source files in the current directory. cscope may also be invoked for +source files named on the command line. In either case, cscope +searches the standard directories for #include files that it does not +find in the current directory. cscope uses a symbol cross-reference, +cscope.out by default, to locate functions, function calls, macros, +variables, and preprocessor symbols in the files. + +cscope builds the symbol cross-reference the first time it is used on +the source files for the program being browsed. On a subsequent +invocation, cscope rebuilds the cross-reference only if a source file +has changed or the list of source files is different. When the +cross-reference is rebuilt, the data for the unchanged files are +copied from the old cross-reference, which makes rebuilding faster +than the initial build. |