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RE: Patch for generic-build-script
- From: "Robb, Sam" <sam dot robb at timesys dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:41:03 -0400
- Subject: RE: Patch for generic-build-script
> It was actually right there on the xargs man page... ;-) Ok, so it's
> settled -- I'll change your patch to do that instead of the
> -exec option.
Just curious - is there a reason to prefer xargs vs. -exec? I know
that xargs can be used to avoid shell command line length limits,
but are there other advantages?
> Only changes that are generic enough or are harmless (i.e.,
> won't break other builds) should go into the common script. I'm not
> convinced that this particular change (i.e., adding -f to gzip) is
> generally harmless... If you still want to do this for your package,
> though, please feel free.
Understood. I'll go back and take a closer look at what's going
on, just to be sure I understand what's happening.
BTW - once I understood how the gbs is intended to work, it was
really helpful. I'm planning on using it for a couple of other
packages as well. Thanks for making my life a whole lot easier :-)
-Samrobb