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[Emacs-diffs] trunk r114916: Fix commentary in lisp/Makefile.in.


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r114916: Fix commentary in lisp/Makefile.in.
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 20:13:11 +0000
User-agent: Bazaar (2.6b2)

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revno: 114916
revision-id: address@hidden
parent: address@hidden
committer: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
branch nick: trunk
timestamp: Sat 2013-11-02 22:12:59 +0200
message:
  Fix commentary in lisp/Makefile.in.
modified:
  lisp/Makefile.in               
makefile.in-20091113204419-o5vbwnq5f7feedwu-1831
=== modified file 'lisp/Makefile.in'
--- a/lisp/Makefile.in  2013-11-02 20:05:15 +0000
+++ b/lisp/Makefile.in  2013-11-02 20:12:59 +0000
@@ -219,13 +219,11 @@
 lisptagsfiles3 = $(srcdir)/*/*/*.el
 lisptagsfiles4 = $(srcdir)/*/*/*/*.el
 
-## Apparently the echo | sed | xargs is to stop the command line
-## getting too long on MS Windows.  It will make no difference on
-## POSIX systems, where the shell does the globbing right away, before
-## passing the expanded arguments to echo.
-## The POSIX way would be to use find in a similar way to compile-main.
-## But maybe this is not even necessary any more now that this uses
-## relative filenames.
+## The echo | sed | xargs is to stop the command line getting too long
+## on MS Windows, when the MSYS Bash passes it to a MinGW compiled
+## etags.  It might be better to use find in a similar way to
+## compile-main.  But maybe this is not even necessary any more now
+## that this uses relative filenames.
 TAGS: $(lisptagsfiles1) $(lisptagsfiles2) $(lisptagsfiles3) $(lisptagsfiles4)
        rm -f $@
        touch $@


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