xinstall glob question

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

Pretty much, yes.  I would also argue that (A) is clearer and easier  
to read, to say nothing of more efficient.  There are a number of  
processes being spawned in (B) - one for the sh(1) to run the for  
loop, another sh(1) to execute the find(1) in backticks, another for  
the find(1) itself, then n cp(1) invocations inside the loop.  That's  
a lot more fork/execs (which are expensive in MacOSX) than (A) (one).

- Jordan

On Apr 29, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> Are these equivalent?
>>
>> A.
>> eval xinstall -m 755 [glob {!${build.dir}/bin/*.dylib}] ${destroot}/ 
>> ${vtkExamplePath}/bin
>>
>> B.
>> cd ${build.dir}
>> for f in `find bin \! -name '*.dylib'`; do
>>  cp $f ${destroot}/${vtkExamplePath}/bin"
>> done
>
> The only difference I see is the mode setting.
> Feel free to get a second opinion from the seasoned veterans :-)
>
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