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Re: [Findutils-patches] ./configure-time setting of default arg size


From: James Youngman
Subject: Re: [Findutils-patches] ./configure-time setting of default arg size
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:51:49 +0100

On 7/26/07, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
+AC_ARG_VAR([DEFAULT_ARG_SIZE], [Default size of arguments to child processes
+of find and xargs, 128k if unspecified])
+if test -n "$DEFAULT_ARG_SIZE"; then
+   AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([ARG_SIZE], [$DEFAULT_ARG_SIZE],
+     [If defined, the default maximum argument size used in child processes])
+fi

Seems OK, but please use something a bit more specific than just
ARG_SIZE as the macro.   I think the README file probably also needs
to include a description of the new configure option and the NEWS file
should probably tell the reader to refer to that.

James.




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