Re: Filtering loaddefs files in lisp/Makefile

[Chong Yidong]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> What do people think about replacing this ugliness:
>
>           els=`echo $(lisptagsfiles1) $(lisptagsfiles2) $(lisptagsfiles3) 
> $(lisptagsfiles4) | sed -e "s,$(lisp)/[^ ]*loaddefs[^ ]*,," -e 
> "s,$(lisp)/ldefs-boot[^ ]*,,"`; \
>           ${ETAGS} -o $@ $$els
>
> with a command that uses `find', e.g.:
>
>       find . -name "*.el" -a -\! -( -name "*loaddefs.el" -o -name 
> "ldefs-boot.el" -) | ${ETAGS} -o $@ -
>
> The combined length of all the Lisp files expanded from
> $(lisptagsfilesN) is 32K, so I guess a few shells will choke on what
> we currently have, while doing it with `find' will avoid that problem.
> As a bonus, we won't need to track the depth of the `lisp' tree
> hierarchy by adding more of the $(lisptagsfilesN) variables.

Seems fine.