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- This package contains the GNU find, xargs, and locate programs. find
- and xargs comply with POSIX 1003.2 draft 11.1, as far as I know. They
- also support some additional options, some borrowed from Unix and some
- unique to GNU.
-
- To compile these programs:
-
- 1. At the top level (the directory this README is in), type
- `./configure'. This shell script attempts to guess correct values for
- various system-dependent variables used during compilation, and
- creates the Makefiles. This takes minute or two.
-
- If you want to compile in a different directory from the one
- containing the source code, `cd' to that directory and run `configure'
- with the option `+srcdir=DIR', where DIR is the directory that
- contains the source code. The object files and executables will be
- put in the current directory. This option only works with versions of
- `make' that support the VPATH variable. `configure' ignores any other
- arguments you give it.
-
- If your system requires unusual options for compilation or linking
- that `configure' doesn't know about, you can give `configure' initial
- values for variables by setting them in the environment; in
- Bourne-compatible shells, you can do that on the command line like
- this:
- $ CC='gcc -traditional' LIBS=-lposix ./configure
-
- 2. If you want to change the directories where the programs and their
- documentation will be installed, or the optimization options, edit
- `Makefile' and change those values. If you have an unusual system
- that needs special compilation options that `configure' doesn't know
- about, and you didn't pass them in the environment when running
- `configure', you should add them to `Makefile' now. Alternately,
- teach `configure' how to figure out that it is being run on a system
- where they are needed, and mail the diffs to the address listed at the
- end of this file so we can include them in the next release.
-
- If you are not running NIS or Hesiod, you might want to add the option
- -DCACHE_IDS to the Makefile DEFS; it could speed up the -nouser and
- -nogroup options to find. See the comment in the Makefile for more
- information.
-
- 3. In the top-level directory, type `make'. You don't need to
- otherwise touch the Makefiles in the subdirectories or use them
- directly.
-
- 4. If the programs compile successfully, type `make install' to
- install them and their documentation.
-
- 5. After you have installed the programs and documentation, you can
- remove the binaries from the source directories by typing `make
- clean'. Type `make distclean' if you also want to remove the
- Makefiles that `configure' created, for instance if you are going to
- recompile the utilities next on another type of machine.
-
-
- Other things to note:
-
- The locate utility is based on James Woods' public domain fast-find
- code, which is also distributed with the 4.3BSD find. Because POSIX
- requires `find foo' to have the same effect as `find foo -print', the
- fast-find searching has been moved to a separate program, `locate';
- the same thing has been done in 4.3BSD-reno/4.4BSD. If you use
- locate, you should run the included `updatedb' script from cron
- periodically (typically nightly).
-
- Mail suggestions and bug reports for these programs to
- bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.
-