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Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:42:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: add TAGS target in testsuite
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> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:24:21 -0700
> 
> Pierre> etags --language=none --regex='/proc[ \t]+\([^ \t]+\)/\1/' \
> Pierre>           `find ../../../src/gdb/testsuite -name '*.exp' -print`
> Pierre> etags: Warning: "--language" option is obsolete; use "--language-force"
> Pierre> instead
> Pierre> etags: Unknown language "none" in "language" option
> 
> I think that the Emacs etags defines the etags interface.
> If Exuberant Ctags is incompatible, then that is their bug.

Do bad things happen if you don't specify --language=none?

> I suppose one could write configury for this, but it seems like more
> trouble than it is worth to me.
> 
> If you prefer, I can revert this patch.

I don't think this is reason good enough to revert the patch.

However, wouldn't "find ... | etags ... -" be slightly better?