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Building with configure (\*nix including GNU/Linux)
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Like most Autotools-based projects, you need to do::

    $ ./autogen.sh
    $ ./configure --prefix=/where/you/want # defaults to /usr/local
    $ make
    $ make install # may require extra privileges depending on where to install

After installation the `ctags` executable will be in `$prefix/bin/`.

`autogen.sh` runs `autoreconf` internally.
If you use a (binary oriented) GNU/Linux distribution, `autoreconf` may
be part of the `autoconf` package. In addition you may have to install
`automake` and/or `pkg-config`, too.

Changing the executable's name
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On some systems, like certain BSDs, there is already a 'ctags' program in the base
system, so it is somewhat inconvenient to have the same name for
Universal-ctags. During the ``configure`` stage you can now change
the name of the created executable.

To add a prefix 'ex' which will result in 'ctags' being renamed to 'exctags':

.. code-block:: bash

	$ ./configure --program-prefix=ex

To completely change the program's name run the following:

.. code-block:: bash

	$ ./configure --program-transform-name='s/ctags/my_ctags/; s/etags/myemacs_tags/'

Please remember there is also an 'etags' installed alongside 'ctags' which you may also want to rename as shown above.

Version data entries

2 entries across 2 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
ctags.rb-1.1.4	ext/vendor/ctags/docs/autotools.rst
ctags.rb-1.1.3	ext/vendor/ctags/docs/autotools.rst