From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:06:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: create an install-symlinks target
Message-ID: <861wf5iz6o.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0707180608j7c22631ak87f3ddd6481bccf2@mail.gmail.com>

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

> 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