Re: [Vala] Vala broken on non-gnu systems

[Anatol Pomozov <anatol pomozov gmail com>]

Hi

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Alexander Kojevnikov
<alexander kojevnikov com> wrote:
> On 16 March 2011 12:07, Anatol Pomozov <anatol pomozov gmail com> wrote:
> > While you are here you might want to fix tests/testrunner.sh that also
> > uses GNU extension (xargs -r). See line 167.
>
> Which Unix are you using?
macosx 10.6.4

> FreeBSD's xarg works fine with or without
> the -r option:
>
>     -r      Compatibility with GNU xargs.  The GNU version of xargs runs the
>             utility argument at least once, even if xargs input is empty, and
>             it supports a -r option to inhibit this behavior.  The FreeBSD
>             version of xargs does not run the utility argument on empty
>             input, but it supports the -r option for command-line compatibil-
>             ity with GNU xargs, but the -r option does nothing in the FreeBSD
>             version of xargs.
>
> On a side note, there are other issues with the test runner under
> FreeBSD, they should be fixed by the patch attached to bgo#644876 [0]
>
> [0] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644876