From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cleaner way to not build the ctags that ships with emacs? Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:05:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: <56E0D27E.3030303@cs.ucla.edu> <83k2lan7n3.fsf@gnu.org> <22241.24253.891410.492540@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <8337rymqjc.fsf@gnu.org> <22241.31545.974354.694899@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457622629 6628 80.91.229.3 (10 Mar 2016 15:10:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:10:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 16:10:21 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 1ae2EC-0002pi-EY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:10:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49044 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ae2EB-0006ph-TD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:10:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57222) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ae2E1-0006ai-QY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:10:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ae2E1-0006GI-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:10:05 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48482) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ae2E0-0006Fq-St for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:10:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ae2Dy-0002dm-Oo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:10:02 +0100 Original-Received: from 206-248-186-70.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.186.70]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:10:02 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 206-248-186-70.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:10:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-248-186-70.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vAzr7QdxzfEeHB67pCowNsPhP5o= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:201392 Archived-At: > Sorry, but I don't understand. Exuberant installs a ctags binary and > (if configured with the --enable-etags option) an etags symlink > pointing to it. Exactly because of the need for "the --enable-etags option". IOW it would make sense for Emacs to have an "--enable-ctags" option and hence behave "symmetrically" to Exuberant Ctags. Stefan