Raja R Harinath wrote:

> > I added a macro to test for the presence of etags and whether it
> > supports "--etags-include=<file>" or "-i <file>" for includes.
>
> If Exuberent etags is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for Emacs
> etags, it should support the same options.  Otherwise, it is a bug in
> the distribution if it gives you a "non-standard" etags (you can call
> the Emacs etags the "standard").

Well, there is a precedent in the support for different compiler options and
I don't want to waste the time of potential CVS developers because they
couldn't get their TAGS file built.  A lot of CVS users are installing on
RedHat Linux at the moment.

Derek

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