Fix use of LFS-style absolute paths. Patches from Nixpkgs by Armijn Hemel and Wouter den Breejen . diff -ruN findutils-4.2.20/locate/updatedb.sh findutils-4.2.20.new/locate/updatedb.sh --- findutils-4.2.20/locate/updatedb.sh 2005-01-24 17:12:35.000000000 +0100 +++ findutils-4.2.20.new/locate/updatedb.sh 2005-08-23 14:37:10.000000000 +0200 @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ : ${code:=${LIBEXECDIR}/@code@} -PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:${BINDIR}; export PATH +PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:${BINDIR}:${PATH}; export PATH : ${PRUNEFS="nfs NFS proc afs proc smbfs autofs iso9660 ncpfs coda devpts ftpfs devfs mfs sysfs shfs"} diff -Naur findutils-4.2.30/xargs/xargs.c findutils-4.2.30_new/xargs/xargs.c --- findutils-4.2.30/xargs/xargs.c 2007-02-27 11:21:08.000000000 +0100 +++ findutils-4.2.30_new/xargs/xargs.c 2007-07-17 19:02:05.000000000 +0200 @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ int show_limits = 0; /* --show-limits */ int always_run_command = 1; char *input_file = "-"; /* "-" is stdin */ - char *default_cmd = "/bin/echo"; + char *default_cmd = "echo"; int (*read_args) PARAMS ((void)) = read_line; void (*act_on_init_result)(void) = noop; int env_too_big = 0;