Re: [PATCH] Makefile: create an install-symlinks target

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Jul 18, 2007, 14:06 UTC
Message-ID: <861wf5iz6o.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0707180608j7c22631ak87f3ddd6481bccf2@mail.gmail.com>

"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

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> On 7/18/07, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>> +       @: $(MAKE) && cd '$(prefix_SQ)' && find . -mindepth 1 ...
>
> Sometime about now you'll need to define $(FIND) or even $(GNUFIND)
> for find. There are proprietary systems where find is not available or
> does not do what you want it to. There is often a gfind installed somewhere
> on these systems.

I think that the install-symlinks target is rather more specialized than the tags and TAGS targets, yet those use just "find". I think I'll be able to throw out the -mindepth, however. It was necessary in a version that used find $(prefix), since /opt/git matched -type d -name git* but with find . this should not be relevant.

I'll amend that patch and prepare a separate one that uses $(FIND) everywhere.

-- 
David Kastrup