On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 05:24:39AM +0000, Jack Peirce wrote:
> Some of the flags used in the notmuch-mutt script included in the
> contrib directory are not supported by the OpenBSD implementation of
> ln and xargs.

I wasn't aware of that, so thanks for spotting it and for your patch.

The patch looks good to me. I've also tested on my GNU/Linux machine and
it works fine.

David, please consider the attached (format-)patch for inclusion into
the upcoming release of Notmuch.

Cheers.
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From 8641b7bc815d3a50a25069018faeb773b30499f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jack Peirce <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 10:32:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] notmuch-mutt: fix xargs/ln usage for OpenBSD compatibility

- xargs: use -r flag instead of --no-run-if-empty
- ln: use -I flag/3rd form of ln command instead of -t flag/4th form

Signed-off-by: Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]>
---
 contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt b/contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt
index 126cbf4..b47b365 100755
--- a/contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt
+++ b/contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ sub search($$$) {
     empty_maildir($maildir);
     system("notmuch search --output=files $dup_option $query"
 	   . " | sed -e 's: :\\\\ :g'"
-	   . " | xargs --no-run-if-empty ln -s -t $maildir/cur/");
+	   . " | xargs -r -I searchoutput ln -s searchoutput $maildir/cur/");
 }
 
 sub prompt($$) {
-- 
2.1.4

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