> On 2022/10/19 13:25, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>> Thanks. the v6 patch pushed to master branch.
>
> Since this commit, make_etags has started failing to generate
> tags files with the following error messages, on my MacOS.
>
> $ src/tools/make_etags
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ctags:
> illegal option -- e
> usage: ctags [-BFadtuwvx] [-f tagsfile] file ...
> sort: No such file or directory
>
>
> In my MacOS, non-Exuberant ctags is installed and doesn't support
> -e option. But the commit changed make_etags so that it always
> calls ctags with -e option via make_ctags. This seems the cause of
> the above failure.
>
> IS_EXUBERANT=""
> ctags --version 2>&1 | grep Exuberant && IS_EXUBERANT="Y"
>
> make_ctags has the above code and seems to support non-Exuberant
> ctags.
> If so, we should revert the changes of make_etags by the commit and
> make make_etags work with that ctags? Or, we should support
> only Exuberant-type ctags (btw, I'm ok with this) and get rid of
> something like the above code?
Thanks for the report. I will look into this.
Best reagards,
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