From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cleaner way to not build the ctags that ships with emacs? Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:56:16 +0200 Message-ID: <83k2lan7n3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56E0D27E.3030303@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457592996 11155 80.91.229.3 (10 Mar 2016 06:56:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 06:56:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, kaushal.modi@gmail.com To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 07:56:26 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 1aduWH-0005oL-IZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 07:56:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46623 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aduWD-0006BH-KW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:56:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47546) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aduW0-0006As-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:56:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aduVw-0001nG-Ap for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:56:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35367) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aduVw-0001mY-78; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:56:04 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4853 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aduVu-00089k-BU; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:56:02 -0500 In-reply-to: <56E0D27E.3030303@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Wed, 9 Mar 2016 17:48:46 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:201354 Archived-At: > 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?