The code was was added in a few months back - and there is no reported issue [by petsc-dev users] or in nightlybuilds since then - so this issue must be something else.
Is it reproduceable in a clean repo? git clean -f -d -x I think we need the *.tex files in 'etags' file [and currently we process the same files for ctags aswell] Satish On Fri, 4 Apr 2014, Barry Smith wrote: > > Jose, > > I’m sorry I don’t understand this bug report. I don’t see a *.tex in > generateetags.py nor does it crash for me.Is it crashing in a particular > directory? > > Thanks > > Barry > > > > On Apr 4, 2014, at 4:17 AM, Jose E. Roman <jro...@dsic.upv.es> wrote: > > > I am getting an error when generating the tags, see error below. I have > > tracked the problem down to this offending commit: > > https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/326299b7 > > > > It started to appear when the TAO users guide was placed under src. > > A simple fix is to remove *.tex from generateetags.py > > Do you want me to change this? > > > > Jose > > > > > > $ make alletags > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "bin/maint/generateetags.py", line 154, in <module> > > main(ctags) > > File "bin/maint/generateetags.py", line 143, in main > > os.path.walk(os.getcwd(),processDir,[etagfile,ctagfile]) > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 246, in walk > > walk(name, func, arg) > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 246, in walk > > walk(name, func, arg) > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 246, in walk > > walk(name, func, arg) > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 238, in walk > > func(arg, top, names) > > File "bin/maint/generateetags.py", line 94, in processDir > > if newls: createTags(etagfile,ctagfile,dirname,newls) > > File "bin/maint/generateetags.py", line 62, in createTags > > raise RuntimeError("Error running ctags "+output) > > RuntimeError: Error running ctags ctags: "/home/jroman/soft/petsc/CTAGS" > > doesn't look like a tag file; I refuse to overwrite it. > > make: [alletags] Error 1 > > > > > >