David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> writes:
> Currently the Makefile creates TAGS for emacs with the command:
> find "$(SRC_PATH)" -name '*.[hc]' -print0 | xargs -0 etags
> That works only if xargs ends up invoking etags just once. If xargs runs
> etags several times, as it will if there are enough files, then the later
> invocations will overwrite the output from the earlier invocations. This
> patch uses the etags --append option to fix the bug.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> ---
> Makefile | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 2262410..bb576da 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -331,7 +331,8 @@ test speed: all
>
> .PHONY: TAGS
> TAGS:
> - find "$(SRC_PATH)" -name '*.[hc]' -print0 | xargs -0 etags
> + rm -f $@
> + find "$(SRC_PATH)" -name '*.[hc]' -print0 | xargs -0 etags --append
>
> cscope:
> rm -f ./cscope.*
Slightly more portable:
find "$(SRC_PATH)" -name '*.[hc]' -exec etags --append {} +
