Re: Cleaner way to not build the ctags that ships with emacs?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Kaushal Modi <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 16:29:28 -0500
> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
>  Why not put your Exuberant ctags elsewhere, and use a shell alias to
>  invoke it?
> 
> That's definitely an option. But I was looking for a way to declutter my 
> $PATH and $MANPATH of stuff I am
> never going to use. Also I prefer to not hard code aliases to binaries 
> because my binary locations are dynamic
> (the $PATH is update based on the RHEL OS version and version of the software 
> (master/stable/etc)).

An alias can use any shell construct you want, so it can be dynamic.

> Would removing "ctags${EXEEXT}" from this line (using something like sed) 
> prevent building of ctags and its
> manpage?

Yes.