Re: updatedb won't update

[James Youngman]

On 10/2/06, Goetz, Philip (NIH/NLM/LHC) [C] <address@hidden> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Youngman [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 6:07 PM
> > To: Goetz, Philip (NIH/NLM/LHC) [C]
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: updatedb won't update
> >
> > On 9/30/06, Goetz, Philip (NIH/NLM/LHC) [C] <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > > Hi - I downloaded find-utils for solaris 10 sparc machines, and
> > > installed it on my SunBlade 2000.  When I run updatedb, a call to
> > "sort"
> > > runs out of memory.  I changed each call to sort to sort -S 500000,
> > and
> > > it no longer runs out of memory.  Instead, it runs for about a
> second,
> > > produces the error message
> > >
> > > sort: missing NEWLINE added at end of input file STDIN
> > >
> > > and produces a /usr/local/var/locatedb of one line, saying
> > >
> > > LOCATE02/
> >
> > findutils tests for GNU sort at compile time.  If it finds it, it uses
> > "sort -z" and if not it uses "sort".     Did you install a binary
> > package of findutis (configured for use with GNU findutils) without
> > GNU sort being present?
>
> GNU sort was present, but /usr/bin/sort comes before it on my $PATH.

Perhaps this is a bug.  At the moment, findutils/m4/nullsort.m4 does
not record the path to the sort binary that it determined supports the
-z option.