Re: Linux Makefile uses 'ls', causes problems with color-ls (PATCH)

ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:25:25 +0200


On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 01:53:20PM +0300, Catalin Muresan wrote:

> - ls *.o > $$MODLIB/.allmods; \
> + echo *.o | tr ' ' '\n' > $$MODLIB/.allmods; \

How about find? When crosscompiling on various Unices the shell expansion
and passed environment variables may at times exceed the limits of various
Unices, Solaris and IRIX and a few others come to mind. We rely on find
anyway and find won't run into that problem.

Ralf

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