[Ctags] Ctags generates absolute instead of relative paths

[David C. <dav...@fr...>]

Hi all,

 

I have a problem when generating TAGS from Gnu Emacs 23.3, but the problem
only occurs on Windows and not on linux.

Although I use the "-e" option and even the explicit "--tag-relative=yes"
option, the TAGS file that is generated contains absolute paths instead of
relative paths.

 

The details of this problem can be found here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2012-01/msg00035.html

 

I originally thought this problem was related to emacs, not to ctags itself,
because it only occurs when the shell command used to build the TAGS file is
issued from within emacs, not from a plain windows shell.

However I now have doubts, and I'm wondering if ctags is not to blame after
all.

 

To reproduce the problem, simply follow the steps at the end of this post:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2012-01/msg00090.html

 

Can anyone reproduce it ? Does anyone have a guess as to what the problem is
?

Is ctags sensitive to any environment variables (as opposed to command line
arguments) which can explain that behaviour ?

 

Many thanks in advance

Cheers,

David.