Re: find -path isn't portable

Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of jue oct 21 17:48:18 -0300 2010:
> buildfarm member koi, having recently been rescued from git purgatory,
> is failing like this:
>
> configure: using CFLAGS=-O -Kinline
> configure: using CPPFLAGS= -I/usr/local/include/libxml2 -I/usr/local/include
> configure: using LDFLAGS= -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib
> preparing build tree... UX:find: ERROR: Illegal option -- -path
> UX:find: TO FIX: Usage: find [path-list] [predicate-list]
> UX:ln: ERROR: Cannot create /home/ohp/pgfarmbuild/HEAD/pgsql.10464//config/Makefile: No such file or directory
> configure: error: failed
>
> which indicates it can't cope with your recent patch to prep_buildtree.
> I was afraid that might be a problem. Can we please stick to the
> find(1) options defined by the Single Unix Spec?
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/find.html

Ugh. I'll look into this.

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