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Re: Cleanup etags generation (Was Re: Ping: etags patch)
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Cc: tromey at redhat dot com, Gcc Patch List <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:14:47 +0100
- Subject: Re: Cleanup etags generation (Was Re: Ping: etags patch)
- References: <87n0kbjbmh.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <u8adfzoild.fsf@gromit.moeb>
Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de> writes:
|> A make TAGS was successfull - but I got this error message (introduced
|> by Tom's patch):
|>
|> mv -f c-parse.[ch] =*.[chy] tmp-tags; \
|> etags *.y *.h *.c $incs; \
|> mv tmp-tags/* .; \
|> rmdir tmp-tags)
|> mv: cannot stat `=*.[chy]': No such file or directory
|>
|> What's the purpose of =*.[chy]? I do not see a reason for such files
|> at all.
I'd guess it's a leftover from the elder days, where =* was used for some
kind of backup files. Both emacs and glibc (still?) have traces of them.
Andreas.
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