Ilya Zakharevich on Tue, 3 Jun 2003 12:56:59 -0700


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Re: make etags use -r and -l options that are not always available


On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 03:32:13PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Hello PARI-dev,
> 
> make etags fails if etags is 
> 
> Exuberant Ctags 5.2.2, Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Darren Hiebert
>   Compiled: Feb 17 2002, 15:21:28
>   Addresses: <dhiebert@users.sourceforge.net>, http://ctags.sourceforge.net
>   Optional compiled features: +wildcards, +regex
> 
> This is due to the use of the -r and -l options that are not supported.
> 
> %LANG=C make etags
> cd src; sh make_emacs_tags
> etags: Unknown option: -r
> etags: Unknown option: -l
> etags: Unknown option: -l
> etags: Unknown option: -l
> Can't open TAGS.tmp: No such file or directory.

So upgrade to the version which supports them...  [The complaint is
similar to trying to compile PARI with Visual Basic interpreter.]
Actualy, I suspect that this etags is just named similarly to the
"standard" one; there is no sense in having etags without -l and -r.

Hope this helps,
Ilya