Ticket #4195 (new enhancement)
Makefile utility targets for tags
| Reported by: | psprint | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | Future Releases |
| Component: | mc-core | Version: | master |
| Keywords: | ctags,tags,makefile,make | Cc: | |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Branch state: | no branch | Votes for changeset: |
Description
Hi,
the patch adds three Makefile targets:
- tags-emacs, which generates the TAGS file ↔ the Emacs style tags (actually used by mcedit),
- tags-vim, which generates the tags file with Vim-style tags,
- tags, which generates both above,
… from a curated, well done ctags command invocation, with all the needed options like the recursion and search for C sources and e.g.: proper parsing of the headers (.h). The command is in two forms, first for Exuberant Ctags and the second one for Universal Ctags (there's a check for which one is being found).
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Change History
Changed 3 years ago by psprint
- Attachment Makefile-tags-targets_v2.patch added
Added extra tags for #include macros
comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by andrew_b
Unfortunately, this patch is useless if out-of-source build is used.
comment:2 follow-up: ↓ 3 Changed 3 years ago by psprint
I do not understand, could you please explain? Out-of-source build means AFAIK putting compiled objects in a subfolder and I don't see conflict with running ctags via top level Makefile?
The patch is of lesser importance, I thought that such targets would be cool and I'd sent it mostly for my own convenience…
comment:3 in reply to: ↑ 2 Changed 3 years ago by andrew_b
Replying to psprint:
Out-of-source build means AFAIK putting compiled objects in a subfolder
Build tree can be located in any place as far from source tree as you wish.
and I don't see conflict with running ctags via top level Makefile?
Top level Makefile created in the build tree, not in the source one. In the build tree, there are no c/h files excepting config.h, and only config.h is found by ctags.
BTW, the automake's built-in target ctags doesn't support of out-of-source build either.
