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

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 17:48:46 -0800
>> 
>> It should be fairly easy to add an option to 'configure'. Something
>> like this, say:
>> 
>> ./configure --disable-lib-src=ctags
>> 
>> where the option argument specifies which lib-src programs to
>> build. Is that something you'd like to develop?

> Maybe we should even make that the default?  Does anyone still use
> the ctags that is distributed with Emacs?

Wouldn't that argument apply to etags as well? Exuberant Ctags has an
etags mode which can be enabled by the -e option, or by invoking the
program under the name etags.

Ulrich