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Re: Cleanup etags generation


Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de> writes:

> 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.

So, should it get removed?

Andreas
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