Re: Compiling fails on MacOS

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Fri, 1 Nov 2024 22:06:44 +0100
    From:        Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <ZyVC5Hgvr87rylOJ%falu.nl@localhost>

  | I find I have tags files where the file names in it are relative to the
  | location of the tags file.

That could easily be the way it works, I'm not sure I have ever
used a tags file that wasn't in '.' so the difference would not
be apparent,

However, at least with our ctags, the file names in the tags file
(relative or fully qualified) are simply the names given on the
command line, so are always relative to the $PWD in which ctags
was run (unless /whatever of course).   That means the tags file
need to be in '.' (or that full path names were given as args)
when it is created - even if it does turn out to be possible to
use it (conveniently) from some other location.

kre