Re: [gentoo-dev] find -delete safe to use?

[James Le Cuirot]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 10:25:38 +0100
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:

> >>>>> On Sat, 14 Mar 2015, James Le Cuirot wrote:
>
> > I've long considered the -delete argument to find to be widely
> > supported enough that using it in ebuilds should not be a problem.
> > Indeed, a grep of the tree shows that it is frequently used, even in
> > eclasses.
>
> > I've just noticed that the man page states that it is not present in
> > the BSD version. findutils is now included in @system, even on BSD,
> > but the ebuild looks as though it gets installed as gfind rather
> > than find.
>
> In EAPI 5, ebuilds can assume GNU findutils version 4.4 or later:
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/5/pms.html#x1-12600011.3.1.1

Thanks, that's very definitive. Still curious how it fits with the
findutils ebuild though.

        program_prefix=$(usex userland_GNU '' g)
        econf \
                --program-prefix=${program_prefix}

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James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer