CVS commit by dagerbo: 

Using KShellProcess doesn't appear to be necessary in this case. Changing to KProcess let's us be notified about tags file creation failure. Only tested with CVS HEAD, but api-wise everything should be there for KDE-3.0+
Closing Bug #63135.


  M +16 -16    ctagspart.cpp   1.22


--- kdevelop/parts/ctags/ctagspart.cpp  #1.21:1.22
@@ -204,5 +204,5 @@ bool CTagsPart::ensureTagsLoaded()
             return false;
         if (!createTagsFile()) {
-            KMessageBox::sorry(mainWindow()->main(), i18n("Could not create tags file"));
+            KMessageBox::sorry(mainWindow()->main(), i18n("Could not create tags file!\n\nPlease make sure 'ctags' can be found in your PATH."));
             return false;
         }
@@ -296,17 +296,17 @@ bool CTagsPart::createTagsFile()
     kdDebug(9022) << "create tags file" << endl;
 
-    QString cmd = "cd ";
-    cmd += KShellProcess::quote(project()->projectDirectory());
-    cmd += " && ctags -n --c++-types=+px";
+        KProcess proc;
+        proc.setWorkingDirectory( project()->projectDirectory() );
+
+        proc << "ctags";
+        proc << "-n";
+        proc << "--c++-types=+px";
 
     QStringList l = project()->allFiles();
     QStringList::ConstIterator it;
-    for (it = l.begin(); it != l.end(); ++it) {
-        cmd += " ";
-        cmd += KShellProcess::quote(*it);
+        for (it = l.begin(); it != l.end(); ++it) 
+        {
+                proc << *it;
     }
-
-    KShellProcess proc("/bin/sh");
-    proc << cmd;
 
     QApplication::setOverrideCursor(Qt::waitCursor);