Re: make etags use -r and -l options that are not always available

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 12:56:59PM -0700, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 03:32:13PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
>>> Hello PARI-dev,
>>>
>>> make etags fails if etags is
>>>
>>> Exuberant Ctags 5.2.2, Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Darren Hiebert
>>>   Compiled: Feb 17 2002, 15:21:28
>>>   Addresses: <dhiebert@users.sourceforge.net>, http://ctags.sourceforge.net
>>>   Optional compiled features: +wildcards, +regex
>>>
>>> This is due to the use of the -r and -l options that are not supported.
>>
>> So upgrade to the version which supports them...  [The complaint is
>> similar to trying to compile PARI with Visual Basic interpreter.]
>> Actualy, I suspect that this etags is just named similarly to the
>> "standard" one; there is no sense in having etags without -l and -r.
>
> Exhuberant Ctags is usually considered an improvment over regular etags.
> Anyway I have the etags shipped with emacs20 named etags.emacs20.
>
> We just need to let the user choose what etags program he want to use.
> Something like
> make etags "ETAGS=etags.emacs20"
> would be quite sufficient.

OK, done:

  make ETAGS=etags.emacs20 etags

should work.

    Karim.
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