Re: make_ctags: use -I option to ignore pg_node_attr macro

On 2023/02/08 20:17, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>>> Attached is the v2 patch.
>>
>> Thanks for the patch!
>>
>> With the patch, I got the following error when executing make_etags..
>>
>> $ ./src/tools/make_etags
>> etags: invalid option -- 'e'
>> Try 'etags --help' for a complete list of options.
>> sort: No such file or directory
>
> Oops. Thank you for pointing it out. BTW, just out of curiosity, do
> you have etags on you Mac?

Yes.

$ etags --version
etags (GNU Emacs 28.2)
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is distributed under the terms in ETAGS.README

>> This is the comment for the commit d1e2a380cb. I found that make_etags
>> with
>> an invalid option reported the following usage message mentioning
>> make_ctags
>> (not make_etags). Isn't this confusing?
>>
>> $ ./src/tools/make_etags -a
>> Usage: /.../make_ctags [-e][-n]
>
> That's hard to fix without some code duplication. We decided that
> make_etags is not a symlink to make_ctags, rather execs make_ctags. Of
> course we could let make_etags perform the same option check, but I
> doubt it's worth the trouble.

How about just applying the following into make_etags?

+if [ $# -gt 1 ] || ( [ $# -eq 1 ] && [ $1 != "-n" ] )
+then echo "Usage: $0 [-n]"
+ exit 1
+fi

> Anyway, attached is the v3 patch.

Thanks for updating the patch!

With the patch, make_etags caused the following error messages
on my MacOS.

$ ./src/tools/make_etags
No such file or directory
No such file or directory

To fix this error, probaby we should get rid of double-quotes
from "$FLAGS" "$IGNORE_IDENTIFIES" in the following command.

- xargs ctags $MODE -a -f $TAGS_FILE "$FLAGS" "$IGNORE_IDENTIFIES"
+ xargs $PROG $MODE $TAGS_OPT $TAGS_FILE "$FLAGS" "$IGNORE_IDENTIFIES"

+ else ctags --help 2>&1 | grep -- -e >/dev/null
+ # Note that "ctags --help" does not always work. Even certain ctags does not have the option.

This code seems to assume that there is non-Exuberant ctags
supporting -e option. But does such ctags really exist?

I fixed the above issues and refactored the code.
Attached is the updated version of the patch. Thought?

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
Advanced Computing Technology Center
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