Re: --program-suffix

[Richard Stallman]

    We link emacs to emacs-${version}. What will end in ${prefix}/bin?
    GNUecams21 linked to GNUecams21-${version}? GNUecams21 linked to
    emacs-${version}?

I am not sure about that one.  Perhaps it is better to transform both
names.

                      What about other programs like ctags and etags? Should
    I apply --program-{prefix,suffix,transform-name} to them?

I think so.  These programs are installed, just like emacs, and
I think the idea of those options is to affect all the commands
that are installed (you could verify this).

                                                              Should I apply
    these rules to lib-src/* utilities?

No, because they are not installed in the user's PATH; they are
private command names, in effect.  Some are run from Lisp code or from
makefiles.  Not renaming them means we don't have the problem of
changing this Lisp code and the makefiles.