Bug#40053: etags 5.0.1 not supported / fail in building source tarball distro

[yannick.koehler at colubris.com]

Package: kdevelop
Version: 2.99 (rc3) gentoo (using KDE 2.9.0 9 (3.0 rc3))
Severity: normal
Installed from:    Gentoo
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.19
OS/Compiler notes: 

When I do Project/ Make Distro / Source

I get the following errors:

list='kemerge po doc '; for subdir in $list; do \ 
test "$subdir" = . || (cd $subdir && make tags); \ 
done 
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ykoehler/kemerge/kemerge' 
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `tags'. 
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ykoehler/kemerge/kemerge' 
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ykoehler/kemerge/po' 
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `tags'. 
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ykoehler/kemerge/po' 
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ykoehler/kemerge/doc' 
list='en '; for subdir in $list; do \ 
test "$subdir" = . || (cd $subdir && make tags); \ 
done 
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ykoehler/kemerge/doc/en' 
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `tags'. 
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ykoehler/kemerge/doc/en' 
tags=; \ 
here=`pwd`; \ 
list='en '; for subdir in $list; do \ 
if test "$subdir" = .; then :; else \ 
test -f $subdir/TAGS && tags="$tags -i $here/$subdir/TAGS"; \ 
fi; \ 
done; \ 
list=' '; \ 
unique=`for i in $list; do echo $i; done | \ 
awk ' { files[$0] = 1; } \ 
END { for (i in files) print i; }'`; \ 
test -z "$unique$tags" \ 
|| (cd . && etags $tags $unique -o $here/TAGS) 
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ykoehler/kemerge/doc' 
tags=; \ 
here=`pwd`; \ 
list='kemerge po doc '; for subdir in $list; do \ 
if test "$subdir" = .; then :; else \ 
test -f $subdir/TAGS && tags="$tags -i $here/$subdir/TAGS"; \ 
fi; \ 
done; \ 
list=' '; \ 
unique=`for i in $list; do echo $i; done | \ 
awk ' { files[$0] = 1; } \ 
END { for (i in files) print i; }'`; \ 
test -z "config.h.in$unique$tags" \ 
|| (cd . && etags $tags config.h.in $unique -o $here/TAGS) 
etags: Warning: -i option is deprecated; use --c-types option instead 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter '/' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter 'h' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter 'o' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter '/' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter 'y' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter 'k' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter 'o' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter 'h' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter 'l' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter 'r' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter '/' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter 'k' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter 'r' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter '/' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter 'k' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter 'r' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter '/' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter 'T' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter 'A' for -i option 
etags: Warning: Unsupported parameter 'G' for -i option 
etags: -o option may not follow a file name 
make: *** [TAGS] Error 1 
*** failed *** 

I'm running etags

Exuberant Ctags 5.0.1, Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Darren Hiebert
  Addresses: <darren at hiebert.com>, http://ctags.sourceforge.net
  Optional compiled features: +wildcards, +regex



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