Re: generated tests/*.at in cvs?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

[ let's remove bug-autoconf ]

* Stepan Kasal wrote on Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 03:46:00PM CEST:
> On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 09:11:25PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > If the change should remain, [...] fix mktests.sh [...]

> I can see several ways to fix it:
> 
> 1) Use egrep -f
> 2) Use -f or multiline patterns, whichever is supported.
> 3) Most of the script can be replaced with one call to awk,
> with a long parameter list.
> 
> Discussion:
> ad 1) and 2) 
> Which platforms have grep which doesn't support -f?

On Solaris 2.6, /usr/xpg4/bin/grep supports both -f and patterns
separated by newlines on the command line (and also -E and -F).
/usr/bin/grep supports none of those.  /usr/bin/egrep supports -f, and
patterns separated by newlines on the command line.  Same business on
Solaris 10, AFAICS.

OpenBSD 3.8 grep supports -f but not patterns separated by newlines on
the command line.

So it seems to me that `$egrep -f' has a good chance of success, as
it seems to work on all systems I looked at.

> ad 2) I think the most convenient way would be to use a shell function.

Well, if you go just for -f, there is no need for a function, no?

Cheers,
Ralf