On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 05:34:22PM +0000, Philip Martin wrote: > I've been experimenting with a SPARC Solaris build recently and the > non-portable use of find in Makefile.in is annoying, it means that the > 'make clean' target fails. There are two uses of > > find some/path -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf -- > > Solaris find doesn't support -mindepth, -maxdepth or -print0. > > Are we using -print0 because problems with spaces in paths have been > observed or simply as some sort of future-proofing? Don't we control > the paths thus allowing us to avoid spaces? > > The use of -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 is also something I don't understand,
The first instance was added in r1421636, and the second one copied from there in r1539215. I agree that the Makefile should be as portable as possible and support any of the alternatives you've mentioned.
