Re: [Bug-vc-dwim] vc-chlog errors with vc-dwim source

[Dave Love]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Dave Love wrote:
>
>> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Dave,
>>> Thanks for the report.
>>> It seems that you have emacs' ctags earlier in your path than
>>> either the one from the "ctags" package or the Exuberant one,
>>> and that its output format is incompatible.
>>
>> There isn't a ctags package (in Debian), and the Exuberant one seems to
>> have essentially the same problem as the Emacs one.
>
> I'd checked with the "ctags" package on Fedora 18 (works fine), and today
> I confirmed that debian-unstable's exuberant-ctags (1:5.9~svn20110310-4)
> also works.  Which version are you using?  Can you use a newer one?

This is actually on Ubuntu 12.04 with a differently edited file from wha
I had originally (not just the extra line) but what appears to be
essentially the same ctags.  Sorry I don't have time to debug it, but I
see the Emacs and Exuberant ctags versions produce completely different
output.  Confused...

  ~/vc-dwim$ ctags --version
  Exuberant Ctags 5.9~svn20110310, Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Darren Hiebert
    Compiled: Nov  9 2011, 17:42:21
    Addresses: <address@hidden>,
    http://ctags.sourceforge.net
    Optional compiled features: +wildcards, +regex
  ~/vc-dwim$ PATH=.:$PATH ./vc-chlog VC.pm 
  ./vc-chlog: 459: test: Illegal number: package
  ./vc-chlog: 458: test: Illegal number: package
  ./vc-chlog: 474: test: Illegal number: package
  ./vc-chlog: 458: test: Illegal number: package
  ./vc-chlog: 474: test: Illegal number: package
  2013-03-20  dlove  <address@hidden(none)>
  
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