From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cleaner way to not build the ctags that ships with emacs? Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:47:09 +0100 Message-ID: <22241.24253.891410.492540@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <56E0D27E.3030303@cs.ucla.edu> <83k2lan7n3.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457610482 30253 80.91.229.3 (10 Mar 2016 11:48:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:48:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kaushal.modi@gmail.com, Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 12:47:53 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1adz4K-0001wy-0L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:47:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adz4J-00080M-B9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 06:47:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57957) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adz46-00080C-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 06:47:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adz43-0005Vc-Cz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 06:47:38 -0500 Original-Received: from a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:47817) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adz43-0005Ut-4U; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 06:47:35 -0500 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.9/8.14.7) with ESMTP id u2ABlBnm009793; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:47:11 +0100 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.2) with ESMTP id u2ABlAVx017415; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:47:10 +0100 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id u2ABlAOD017411; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:47:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: <83k2lan7n3.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 134.93.134.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:201368 Archived-At: >>>>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Paul Eggert >> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 17:48:46 -0800 >> >> It should be fairly easy to add an option to 'configure'. Something >> like this, say: >> >> ./configure --disable-lib-src=ctags >> >> where the option argument specifies which lib-src programs to >> build. Is that something you'd like to develop? > Maybe we should even make that the default? Does anyone still use > the ctags that is distributed with Emacs? Wouldn't that argument apply to etags as well? Exuberant Ctags has an etags mode which can be enabled by the -e option, or by invoking the program under the name etags. Ulrich