Re: [Ctags] Ctags generates absolute instead of relative paths

[Kaz K. <ka...@ky...>]

I might have run into a similar, possibly related issue when I
worked on an embedded Linux distro.

For compiling many projects, including kernels, I used symbolic link
farms generated by the crusty old "lndir" tool from the XWindow
project.

A link farm is a cloned directory structure which is populated by
individual symlinks to files in the original directory structure.
So you can compile a project in one place while the source is
in another place (and that place can even be read-only).
This works even if the makefiles of that project are oblivious to the
idea of a separate build directory.

Anyway, I seem to remember noticing that ctags would get
confused by the symlinks in such a tree and generate absolute paths.