Re: GNU locate Version 4.1.7

[James Youngman]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:38:40PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:

[ bug fixed in the CVS code for findutils ]

> Time for 4.1.21?

Possibly, but I am considering using "sort -z" to sort the list of
filenames used to build the locate database, so that locate can work
with files containing newlines.  I had planned for 4.1.21/4.2.0 to be
released when I had done that.

However, while standard GNU packaging practice would be for the
updatedb shell script to use "find .... -print0 | sort -z" if
available and to use just "find ... -print | sort" if not, a talk by
Bdale Garbee at the UKUUG Linux 2003 conference has mostly convinced
me that the configure script should assume the that all "optional"
features are required, and by default should fail if there is a
missing dependency (in this case a sort program that accepts the -z
option).

In our case, this would mean that the configure script should try
"sort -z", make sure it it works, and fail completely if it doesn't.
A configure option "--without-sort-z" would be provided to allow the
package to be built on systems without "sort -z", but this wouldn't
happen automatically.

Bdale, is this an accurate representation of the sort of approach you
were recommending?

-- 
James Youngman.
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