Re: Makefile patch for cscope and saner Ctags

[Mark Frazer]

Pete Wyckoff <[e-mail]> [01/05/31 13:56]:
> 
> You seem not to have read my response to your earlier mail proprosing
> such a thing (for tags only, not cscope):
> 
>     http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2001week21/1869.html

I did.  I didn't want to sign up to maintain the ctags-ignore file though.

> 
> How does the patch above fix anything?  You're sorting so that
> include/linux/*.h comes before include/linux/{mtd,lockd,raid,...}/*.h,
> but I don't see how that can be an improvement, or how it addresses
> your original complaint "ctags doesn't honour any CPP #if'ing".

The sort -s is a stable sort, so by putting things into ctags in the
order I want them to appear in my tags file I get what I want.  YMMV

My original complaint ain't gonna get fixed anytime soon.

Your script is definitely a better solution IMO.

-mark