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Re: TAGS Makefile target


From: Sandro Santilli
Subject: Re: TAGS Makefile target
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:09:40 +0200

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 09:13:44AM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> 
>    On https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Standard-Targets.html
>    a TAGS Makefile target is recommended but not much is said about it.
>    I guess it's for "etags" (vs. ctags) and so guessed the Bash developers:
> 
>    https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/Makefile.in#n823
> 
>    But a few words on that taget would be nice to have.
> 
> Would you like to suggest an addition?

Something like "the TAGS target should create a TAGS file with format
etags" or something like that ?

>    And may I suggest to make `tags` (for ctags) also a recomendation ?
> 
> I see no harm in mentioning that, though we prefer TAGS ...

Aren't TAGS and tags producing two different things ?

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