[pacman-dev] Fwd: [arch-general] makepkg not stripping bin/libs

[Dan McGee]

On Jan 24, 2008 10:40 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2008 6:14 AM, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > This feels more like pacman-dev material - forwarded there.
>
> Thanks Travis.
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Mark Constable <markc at renta.net>
> >
> > makegpkg 3.1.1 line ~752 has this...
> >
> >  find {,usr/{,local/},opt/}{bin,lib,sbin} -type f
> >
> > and I can't see how that will ever work, and it doesn't
> > for me, however this does work (for me)...
>
> Could you please explain why this will "never work". It makes complete
> sense to me.

It looks like it will match opt/bin, but not opt/kde4/bin, for
instance. Is this what you originally meant by "never working"? You
shouldn't make such blanket statements though.

find {,usr/{,local/},opt/*/}{bin,lib,sbin} -type f

Will this work? (note '*/' addition)

> >  find -regex ".+/bin/.+" -o -regex ".+/lib/.+" -o -regex ".+/sbin/.+" -type f
>
> First question: is -regex portable?

Not sure if it is. I'll let Mark look into this.

-Dan

P.S. Aaron- I CCed the original author in as he probably isn't on this
list, so he never saw your reply.