Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:07:51 +0100
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
>> >> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:27:17 +0100
>> >> 
>> >> Emacs for rgrep use, in addition of grep, two more commands that are find
>> >> and xargs, which is not useful because grep itself is able to recurse
>> >> without the need of these commands.
>> >> It is not a problem on GNU/Linux system based, but seems to add
>> >> portability problems on other systems.
>> >
>> > Not exactly due to portability problems, but due to the fact that
>> > there are so many broken ports of 'find' and 'xargs', at least for
>> > Windows, out there.
>> I always heard (from you :-)) a patched version is needed on windows,
>
> What do you mean by "patched version"?  GNU Find without patches will
> simply not compile on Windows.
Ok, never try to install findutils on windows.

>> which is inconvenient for most users.
>
> ??? My port is available for download:
>
>   
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/findutils-4.2.30-4-w32-bin.zip/download
>
> (There's a 64-bit build there, too, courtesy of another user.)
>
Why don't you merge your port with gnu32 one's? And while you are at it
your updatedb too.


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