On 21/10/2007, Joshua Isom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 20, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Paul Cochrane via RT wrote: > > > The ctags program is now detected at configuration time (this program > > sometimes has different names on different systems) and now 'make tags' > > should work out of the box for all the variations that I'm aware of > > (namely ctags, exuberant-ctags and ctags-exuberant). This is the > > situation as of r22321. If noone reports any other variants in the > > next three days then I'll close this ticket. > > > > Paul > > There's a catch on FreeBSD. There is a ctags included in the base > distribution of FreeBSD but it doesn't support the arguments that > exuberant ctags supports. You can go to > <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi? > query=ctags&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2- > RELEASE&format=html> to read more about the one installed in the base > system. But in ports, it's possible to install exuberant ctags but > it's installed as exctags. The base ctags does work, but it just > requires different calling.
That's a similar gotcha to what happens on Gentoo Linux. ctags is the Emacs ctags, and exuberant ctags (which is the one required by the Parrot Makefile) is called exuberant-ctags. I'll add 'exctags' to the list of ctags name-variants to check for in the ctags step. Thanks for the info! :-) Paul
