Hi Mike,
It often makes sense to change a project that uses Autotools rather than
modifying the Autotools. Can this argument-splitting behavior be
documented as expected? Are no workarounds available?
Replacing "overly fancy but proven shell script" with "dependency on a new
tool" may
On Tuesday 2022-02-15 07:16, Daniel Herring wrote:
>
> Maybe a next-generation configuration tool should start by defining interfaces
> for user interactions and build tools. This would allow CLI and easy GUI and
> IDE users, integration with multiple build systems, static and dynamic
>
Meson is a candidate for such a next-gen config system. It is in python,
which does not quite qualify as usable during early uplift/bootstrap, but
there are C ports in progress, see e.g. https://sr.ht/~lattis/muon/
In the meantime, I agree that find is more portable than cards ;-)
- Dan
Daniel
On 14 Feb 2022 19:53, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2/14/22 19:45, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > how portable is xargs ?
>
> It can be a porting problem, unfortunately. There are several corner
> cases that various implementations don't get right. I expect this is why
> the GNU Coding Standards exclude
context: https://bugs.gnu.org/53340
how portable is xargs ? like, beyond POSIX, as autoconf & automake both
support non-POSIX compliant systems. i want to use it in its simplest
form: `echo $var | xargs rm -f`.
automake jumps through some hoops to try and limit the length of generated
command
On 2/14/22 19:45, Mike Frysinger wrote:
how portable is xargs ?
It can be a porting problem, unfortunately. There are several corner
cases that various implementations don't get right. I expect this is why
the GNU Coding Standards exclude xargs from the list of programs that
'configure' and
On 2/14/22 20:03, Mike Frysinger wrote:
are the corner cases known ?
I don't know of a catalog, no.
These days you might have better luck with "find ... -exec ... {} +".
Although standardized more recently than xargs, my vague impression is
that there's less variation among implementations.
On 14 Feb 2022 01:14, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> On Mon, 2022 Feb 7 23:03-05:00, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > can you provide an example that reproduces the issue ? or link to the
> > package you're working on (assuming it's OSS) ? i checked my own
> > projects and it didn't create a single line,
