On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Why not put your Exuberant ctags elsewhere, and use a shell alias to
> invoke it?
>

That's definitely an option. But I was looking for a way to declutter my
$PATH and $MANPATH of stuff I am never going to use. Also I prefer to not
hard code aliases to binaries because my binary locations are dynamic (the
$PATH is update based on the RHEL OS version and version of the software
(master/stable/etc)).

Would removing "ctags${EXEEXT}" from this line (using something like sed)
prevent building of ctags and its manpage?

INSTALLABLES = etags${EXEEXT} ctags${EXEEXT} emacsclient${EXEEXT} $(CLIENTW) \
               ebrowse${EXEEXT}


(
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lib-src/Makefile.in?id=711ca362e7f8ca7c4f664dc2fe60bc5fa4e4f4fe#n153
)


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Kaushal Modi