Sort call faliure

[kalocsaibotond]

Universal Ctags sort call faliure

I ran universal ctags on my python project, on Windows 10, Powershell 7.4.5, and I get the following result

Input file specified two times.

ctags.exe: cannot sort tag file: system ("sort -u -o tags tags") exited with 1

Neverheless, I think I found the issue:

PS> Get-Command sort.exe
CommandType     Name                                               Version    Source
-----------     ----                                               -------    ------
Application     sort.exe                                           10.0.1904… C:\Windows\system32\sort.exe

I tried sort.exe out separately with sort.exe -u -o tags tags and it yields Input file specified two times.
This is despite the fact I created a scoop shim for the GNU coreutil sort that lies in the Git for Windows mini unix environment.

It would be nice solution to have a way to override the sort command for windows either through environment variable or through a command line option.

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The name of the parser:

ctags's default (python) parser.

The command line you used to run ctags:

PS> ctags --options=NONE -R

though the same occurs with

PS> ctags --options=NONE .

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The content of input file:

Python project files.

The tags output you are not satisfied with:

The generated tags seems fine, I tried them with Neovim client.

The tags output you expect:

I get what I expect, though it is unsorted.

The version of ctags:

PS> ctags --version
Universal Ctags 6.1.0, Copyright (C) 2015-2023 Universal Ctags Team
Universal Ctags is derived from Exuberant Ctags.
Exuberant Ctags 5.8, Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Darren Hiebert
  Compiled: Aug  6 2024, 16:07:53
  URL: https://ctags.io/
  Output version: 0.0
  Optional compiled features: +win32, +wildcards, +regex, +gnulib_regex, +unix-path-separator, +iconv, +option-directory, +xpath, +json, +interactive, +yaml, +case-insensitive-filenames, +packcc, +optscript, +pcre2

How do you get ctags binary:

PS> scoop install extras/universal-ctags

[leleliu008]

It seems that you built it from source not install via scoop, becasue your Compiled: Aug 6 2024, 16:07:53 2 month ago, scoop just down binary from our release as per https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Extras/blob/master/bucket/universal-ctags.json , our releases for windows disable the external sort https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags-win32/blob/master/.github/workflows/build-ctags.yaml#L162

[kalocsaibotond]

It seems that you built it from source not install via scoop, becasue your Compiled: Aug 6 2024, 16:07:53 2 month ago, scoop just down binary from our release as per https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Extras/blob/master/bucket/universal-ctags.json , our releases for windows disable the external sort https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags-win32/blob/master/.github/workflows/build-ctags.yaml#L162

Thank you for your quick response. I think I found the source of interferene:

PS> Get-Command ctags
CommandType     Name                                               Version    Source
-----------     ----                                               -------    ------
Application     ctags.exe                                          6.1.0.0    C:\Users\botond.kalocsai\scoop\apps\mingw-winlibs\current\bin\ctags.exe

Unfortunately, the mingw-winlibs scoop package also contains a version of universal-ctags that behaves differently, which overrides the proper universal-ctag's shim. Uninstalling mingw-winlibs gives back the access to the proper universal-ctags shim.

[masatake]

I don't want to add flexibility to the area.
I took much time to work on https://git.almalinux.org/rpms/ctags/commit/3c370ff3576fbbad5e6e5245942a6f306c773d71.patch .

I don't know the package manager(s?) on Windows.
However, if the "sort" command is unavailable, using --disable-external-sort looks like a simple solution.