patch applied (packages/Cabal): xargs -s breaks solaris

Matthias Kilian kili at outback.escape.de
Fri Dec 12 16:03:34 EST 2008


On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:42:45AM -0800, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> Wed Oct  8 11:50:41 PDT 2008  Duncan Coutts <duncan at haskell.org>
>   * xargs -s breaks solaris
>   Hopefully we can figure out a better fix for recent cygwin
>   versions of xargs which are apparently broken.

Is "find ... -exec {} +" supported on all relevant operating systems
(except OpenBSD, which still lacks support of it)? This would render
xargs obsolete, and I'd had a stronger argument for adding "-exec
{} +" to OpenBSD's find ;-)

Ciao,
	Kili


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