FYI: handle requied=etags

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

This silly behavior of Exuberant Ctags caused distcheck to fail.

I'm installing this on HEAD and branch-1-7, and rerunning distcheck :(

2003-04-18  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <address@hidden>

        * tests/defs.in: Handle required=etags to work around
        Exuberant Ctags.

Index: tests/defs.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/tests/defs.in,v
retrieving revision 1.4.2.9
diff -u -r1.4.2.9 defs.in
--- tests/defs.in       17 Apr 2003 19:16:36 -0000      1.4.2.9
+++ tests/defs.in       18 Apr 2003 19:51:09 -0000
@@ -71,6 +71,14 @@
        echo "$me: running bison --version"
        ( bison --version ) || exit 77
        ;;
+      etags)
+       # Exuberant Ctags will create a TAGS file even
+       # when asked for --help or --version.  (Emacs's etags
+       # does not have such problem.)  Use -o /dev/null
+       # to make sure we do not pollute the tests/ directory.
+       echo "$me: running etags --version -o /dev/null"
+       ( etags --version -o /dev/null ) || exit 77
+       ;;
       GNUmake)
        # Use --version and -v, because SGI Make doesn't fail on --version.
        echo "$me: running $MAKE --version -v"

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz