[bug #20310] updatedb generates an invalid database of (1) one filename (=concatenation of all filenames on the fs)

[James Youngman]

Update of bug #20310 (project findutils):

             Assigned to:                    None => jay                    

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Follow-up Comment #2:

My initial guess would be that you are using a findutils installation in
whcih the "configure" script thought that sort had a working -z option, but
in fact it doesn't work.


In updatedb.sh there is the following:

    if @SORT_SUPPORTS_Z@
    then
        sort="@SORT@ -z"
        print_option="-print0"
        frcode_options="$frcode_options -0"
    else
        sort="@SORT@"
        print_option="-print"
    fi

If my hypothesis is correct, this expands to ...
    if true
    then
        sort="sort -z"
        print_option="-print0"
        frcode_options="$frcode_options -0"
    else
        sort="sort"
        print_option="-print"
    fi

... but sort's -z option does not provide for sorting NUL-terminated strings.
   Could you check both of these gueses please?


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