Cleaner way to not build the ctags that ships with emacs?

[Kaushal Modi]

Hi all,

I use the Exuberant ctags (now Universal ctags: https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags ) and whenever I build emacs, as my emacs bin dir is put at a higher precedence (as I want my built emacs binary to shadow the default emacs binary), the emacs ctags also shadows the universal ctags binary.

So I have this hack in my emacs build script (csh).

    if ( -e ${MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR}/bin/ctags ) then

        \mv ${MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR}/bin/ctags ${MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR}/bin/ctags_emacs

    endif

    if ( -e ${MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR}/share/man/man1/ctags.1.gz ) then

        \mv ${MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR}/share/man/man1/ctags.1.gz ${MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR}/share/man/man1/ctags_emacs.1.gz

    endif

Is there a clean way to prevent the building of emacs ctags binary and man pages attogether? May be a configure option?

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Kaushal Modi