Re: [PATCH] add cscope tags target

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at engr dot sgi dot com>]

On Wednesday, July 14, 2004 3:36 pm, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > Now that cscope is free software, I thought it might be nice if automake
> > created make targets for it.  It's a powerful too; very useful for large
> > projects.  Here's a patch that implements it in tags.am.  If it looks ok,
> > can someone please commit it so it's part of the next release?
>
> It looks like this rule will include source files which are not
> incorporated by Makefile.am since it appears to simply recurse through
> the source tree.  That means it may pick up source files from other
> projects, or source files which are not in use.  Is that what you
> intended?

Kind of.  It looks like gtags does that, so I followed its example.  It might 
be better to only include those explicitly listed by Makefile.am, but I 
wasn't sure of the best way to get the full list of source files...  OTOH, 
maybe it's best to index the whole project.

Jesse