[kaffe] xargs -i

Dalibor Topic robilad at kaffe.org
Mon Aug 22 10:21:23 PDT 2005


Ito Kazumitsu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The following line Makefile.am causes error on FreeBSD.
> 
>         echo KAFFELIBRARYPATH=\$${KAFFELIBRARYPATH+\"\$$KAFFELIBRARYPATH\"\''$(PATHSEP)'\'}`for f in $(JAVA_LIBS); do echo "$$f" | sed 's%/[^/]*$$%%' | xargs -n 1 -iXXX echo XXX"/.libs"; done | (tr '\012' ' '; echo) | sed -e 's/ $$//' -e "s/ /\'$(PATHSEP)\'/g"`\; export KAFFELIBRARYPATH >> BUILD_ENVIRONMENT.new; \
> 
> xargs -i is specific to GNU version of xargs, and FreeBSD's xargs
> does not accept that option.  I had to install GNU's findutils-4.2.23
> to make all the tests pass.

I am sorry about that, I already received a patch to fix that using the
apparently more standard -I option.

I've thought about avoiding such bugs in the future, and I think instead
of using a scriptlet, maybe manually listing all the native libraries
necessary to run the test suite in the KAFFELIBRARYPATH variable is a
better choice. I'll try that and check it in if it works for me.

cheers,
dalibor topic



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