From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:33:10 +0100 Organization: Emacs Helm Message-ID: <87mwxbdukp.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87hanjg14w.fsf@dimension8.tehua.net> <871uen4pve.fsf@gmail.com> <83sj73p8mt.fsf@gnu.org> <87r4mndyiw.fsf@gmail.com> <83ip7zp41o.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355859229 2663 80.91.229.3 (18 Dec 2012 19:33:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:33:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 18 20:34:04 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tl2vU-0005Tc-Aq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:34:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48409 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tl2vD-0005Nq-CR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:33:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54001) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tl2v4-0005NL-W6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:33:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tl2ux-000184-NZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:33:35 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50385) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tl2ux-00017T-GJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:33:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tl2v5-0005BF-UV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:33:39 +0100 Original-Received: from lbe83-2-78-243-104-167.fbx.proxad.net ([78.243.104.167]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:33:39 +0100 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by lbe83-2-78-243-104-167.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:33:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lbe83-2-78-243-104-167.fbx.proxad.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pcBPFNV/9f1DazW3r4vMmn/akoY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88203 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Thierry Volpiatto >> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:07:51 +0100 >> >> Eli Zaretskii writes: >> >> >> From: Thierry Volpiatto >> >> 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. -- Thierry Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997