Re: [PATCH] Re: etags name collision.

[Ergus]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 07:40:29PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 18:19:42 +0200
> > From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 06:51:58PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > >The code should test whether another version of 'ctags' is already
> > >installed, and if so, that it isn't our 'ctags'.  _Then_ we could
> > >default to not installing our 'ctags'.  Your proposal doesn't make
> > >that test, so please add it.
> > >
> > >Thanks.
> > >
> > I do this tests like with mailutils and movemail:
> >
> > (ctags --version) >/dev/null 2>&1 || with_ctags=no
> >
> > Isn't this enough?
>
> No, because AFAIU this test will succeed also if the installed ctags
> is (an older version) of the program that came with (an older version)
> of Emacs.  You need to make sure the text emitted by --version does
> NOT include "GNU Emacs".
Now?

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