Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:07:51 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
> >> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:27:17 +0100
> >> 
> >> Emacs for rgrep use, in addition of grep, two more commands that are find
> >> and xargs, which is not useful because grep itself is able to recurse
> >> without the need of these commands.
> >> It is not a problem on GNU/Linux system based, but seems to add
> >> portability problems on other systems.
> >
> > Not exactly due to portability problems, but due to the fact that
> > there are so many broken ports of 'find' and 'xargs', at least for
> > Windows, out there.
> I always heard (from you :-)) a patched version is needed on windows,

What do you mean by "patched version"?  GNU Find without patches will
simply not compile on Windows.

> which is inconvenient for most users.

??? My port is available for download:

  
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/findutils-4.2.30-4-w32-bin.zip/download

(There's a 64-bit build there, too, courtesy of another user.)