-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Stepan Kasal on 4/3/2008 9:48 AM: | But AC_PROG_GREP wants grep which supports multiple -e options and | stops with an error if there is none available. | Is that requirement really necessary? Does a "usual" configure | script really need it? Probably not - at least, on inspection, neither autoconf nor coreutils used 'grep -e'. | | If not, could this requirement be relaxed somehow? Sounds reasonable to me. But I think it is a bit too late to experiment with this for 2.62; we'll have to save it for after the release. | | The reporter has actually expirienced this when building GNU grep on | LunxOS. (Well, I can only guess that he tried to build GNU grep | because another configure script has told him that none of the | supplied grep binaries is usable. ;-) | | In case the requirements for grep are not relaxed in Autoconf itself, | shouldn't GNU grep contain a workaround, eg. a modified definition of | AC_PROG_GREP? That sounds like a good idea for the grep package, at any rate. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkf2pkQACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDJDACeIb8UwaVzQlKHRAi/Bw5uOSO1 LNYAn2FvZbe81XYf0l+f7lZsa3ub/C4C =Bqgs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
