Re: etags problem

[Francesco Potorti`]

>           Summary: etags fails to generate tags under some conditions
>           Product: Fedora Core
>           Version: fc3
>          Platform: i386
>        OS/Version: Linux
>            Status: NEW
>          Severity: normal
>          Priority: normal
>         Component: emacs
>        AssignedTo: petersen@redhat.com
>        ReportedBy: idht4n@hotmail.com

Dear David, the etags distributed with Emacs 21.3 is more than three
years old, and has some bugs that are corrected in the newest version,
which is not officially released with Emacs yet.

In the example that you report you are even lucky, because on the same
test case the 21.3 etags dumps core on my box :-)

I suggest you download
<ftp://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/software/unix/etags.tar.gz>, where you will
find the latest etags.c and man page together with a precompiled static
binary for Linux.