Date:	Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:31:41 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Myknees <myknees AT aol DOT com>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: djgpp find OK?
In-Reply-To:	<1998061523033600.TAA29874@ladder01.news.aol.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980617092937.18792K-100000@is>
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On 15 Jun 1998, Myknees wrote:

> That's what I did with date for interactive use.  For portable shell scripts I
> suppose you'd say something like:
> 
> #! $DJDIR/bin/sh
> 
> if [ "$DJGPP" = "" ]; then
>     FINDDIR=
> else
>     FINDDIR=$DJDIR/bin
> fi

I meant the case of shell scripts and Makefile which somebody else wrote, 
like those you get with source distributions of Unix-born programs.  
Having `gfind' will not help when such a script calls `find'.

I don't think there's any solution other than moving the DJGPP's bin 
subdirectory before everything else that can conflict with it.

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