Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: move tags support to a shell script

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:31:08AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 00:16 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > As no-one else wanted to do so - I now moved the tags support
> > to a shell script of its own.
> > The usage is the same: make {tags,TAGS,cscope}
> > 
> > The ALLSOURCE_ARCHS suppport was lost in the transition - is it actually used by anyone?
> 
> I'm the one who actually added it way back in
> a0674e88d9c150e016a69e78e735f48772314c53 and to be honest I don't use it
> anymore since I've changed jobs and only really do x86 now...
> 
> I can't say if anyone else is using it though.
> 
> > I have given the patch only some light testing.
> > 
> > Could those of you that actually sues tags/cscope plese give it a try.
> 
> I tested your second patch from the subsequent email and functionally it
> seems fine, it currently includes include/asm-* for all architectures
> but I suppose they will all go away shortly.
> 
> The output was a bit odd though:
>         $ make cscope
>         /bin/sh /local/scratch/ianc/devel/linux-2.6.git/scripts/tags.sh cscope
>           GEN     cscope.out (from 13251 files)
> I guess I would have expected "  GEN     cscope.files" instead of the
> first line or just "  TAGS"?

Thanks for testing Ian.

I will fix up the invocation line to something like
  GEN    {tags,TAGS,cscope}

And then I will drop the extra output from the shell script
in the cscope case.

Is it OK that I add a:

Tested-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

to the patch?

	Sam
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