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| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/Makefile.in | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/Makefile.in b/lisp/Makefile.in index 1ac6338bcd1..d726f62dbb0 100644 --- a/lisp/Makefile.in +++ b/lisp/Makefile.in @@ -219,13 +219,11 @@ lisptagsfiles2 = $(srcdir)/*/*.el lisptagsfiles3 = $(srcdir)/*/*/*.el lisptagsfiles4 = $(srcdir)/*/*/*/*.el -## Apparently the echo | sed | xargs is to stop the command line -## getting too long on MS Windows. It will make no difference on -## POSIX systems, where the shell does the globbing right away, before -## passing the expanded arguments to echo. -## The POSIX way would be to use find in a similar way to compile-main. -## But maybe this is not even necessary any more now that this uses -## relative filenames. +## The echo | sed | xargs is to stop the command line getting too long +## on MS Windows, when the MSYS Bash passes it to a MinGW compiled +## etags. It might be better to use find in a similar way to +## compile-main. But maybe this is not even necessary any more now +## that this uses relative filenames. TAGS: $(lisptagsfiles1) $(lisptagsfiles2) $(lisptagsfiles3) $(lisptagsfiles4) rm -f $@ touch $@ |