Dear Guennadi,
In message Pine.LNX.4.64.0808121020430.8089@axis700.grange you wrote:
This looks at least as an inconsistency: the TAGS file is removed on "make distclean", but there is no "make TAGS" target. The easiest would be to
There are "tags", "ctags", "etags" and "cscope" make targets.
remove removing TAGS, but better yet would be adding the target to build this file, taking into account the configured architecture, include/asm, for ARM also include/asm/arch, and maybe even cpu/..., lib_..., and board/ paths? Maybe one of u-boot Kbuild / Makefile gurus could implement this in their spare time?:-) I even can imagine, that some of us might want the "tags" file too, and I wouldn't mind adding this target too:-) Yes, kernel has these targets.
What exactly is not working for you when you run "make tags", for example ?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk