SUPERSEDES APPROVE On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 23:30 +0200, Karl Janmar wrote: > Hi, Hi, and sorry for the delay, > In the scripts 'grep-all-files-in-current-directory-*' in > lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/xemacs-base/compile.el > > There is a test that check if the system has GNU find and GNU xargs. > Unfortunantly the test is incomplete, it only verfy that find can handle > the parameter it want to give it, no verification is done on xargs. > > I have made a patch that make 'grep-all-files-in-current-directory-*' > work again on NetBSD and FreeBSD. > > patch is attached. Thanks! After briefly looking into this, I noticed that it'd be good to test whether xargs groks -0 too (on Solaris 8 it doesn't, even though it does understand -e). I think the attached implementation would be ok. Reviewers: I'll commit early next week unless there are objections.