Build cscope.out files in a separate directory
Try following steps:
1 . Generate cscope.files
find /my/src -name '*.c' -o -name '*.h' > /my/db/cscope.files
2 . Run cscope on the generated result
cscope -i /my/db/cscope.files
3 . Export to environment variable
CSCOPE_DB=/my/db/cscope.out; export CSCOPE_DB