On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 04:21:27PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Remove the "FORCE" dependency from the "tags", "TAGS" and "cscope.out" > targets, instead make them depend on whether or not the relevant > source files have changed. > > I'm also removing the "-o" option from them, that seems to have been > cargo-culted when they were initially added in f81e7c626f3 (Makefile: > Add TAGS and tags targets, 2006-03-18). It would make sense to use > that option if we had been appending to tag files, it doesn't make any > sense that it was used after we'd just removed the files file being > appended to. You mean "-a" in this second paragraph, right? I think it would help if xargs splits the source file list across multiple invocations of the command. -Peff
