RE: Patch for generic-build-script

["Robb, Sam" <sam dot robb at timesys dot com>]

> It was actually right there on the xargs man page... ;-)  Ok, so it's
> settled -- I'll change your patch to do that instead of the 
> -exec option.

Just curious - is there a reason to prefer xargs vs. -exec?  I know
that xargs can be used to avoid shell command line length limits,
but are there other advantages? 
 
> Only changes that are generic enough or are harmless (i.e.,
> won't break other builds) should go into the common script.  I'm not
> convinced that this particular change (i.e., adding -f to gzip) is
> generally harmless...  If you still want to do this for your package,
> though, please feel free.

Understood.  I'll go back and take a closer look at what's going
on, just to be sure I understand what's happening.

BTW - once I understood how the gbs is intended to work, it was
really helpful.  I'm planning on using it for a couple of other
packages as well.  Thanks for making my life a whole lot easier :-)

-Samrobb