[MPlayer-dev-eng] Remove make warning

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Thu Feb 5 13:52:45 CET 2009


On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 01:44:59PM +0200, Georgi Petrov wrote:
> 
> There is a warning before compiling each file in the tree:
> 
> makefile:949: warning: overriding commands for target `TAGS'
> makefile:946: warning: ignoring old commands for target `TAGS'

This warning only appears on MinGW.  That's because Windows has
case-insensitive file systems.

> The corresponding lines in Makefile are:
> 
> TAGS:
> 	rm -f $@; ( find -name '*.[chS]' -o -name '*.asm' -print ) | xargs etags -a
> 
> tags:
> 	rm -f $@; ( find -name '*.[chS]' -o -name '*.asm' -print ) | xargs ctags -a
> 
> They seem the same for me and since I don't really understand very
> well the structure of a Makefile, can't we just remove the second line
> (lowercase tags)?

They are not the same, note 'ctags' vs. 'etags'.

Diego



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