Re: FYI: undef $/.

[Akim Demaille]

Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

> >>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Akim> Question: why do we grep . after grep -v?  It is not guaranteed that
> Akim> grep -v will exit positive when it output something?
> 
> I don't know.  cvs annotate claims you added those lines.  In the past
> we used `wc -l'.  If it works without the extra grep that's fine by
> me.

Yep, I removed the test "`.... | wc -l `" and went to `| grep' which,
IMHO, is more readable, and more Autoconf like.  But I didn't really
think about the usefulness of the | grep after a grep -v.