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Re: [bug #31646] grep fails to build on Solaris 10, because it lacks gre
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: [bug #31646] grep fails to build on Solaris 10, because it lacks grep |
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Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:52:49 +0100 |
Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/14/2010 03:09 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> It is possible to disable the body of these two expansions by
>>> assigning values to GREP and EGREP inside the configure script.
>>
>> But with no grep program already installed, that will always fail.
>
> You can implement a basic grep that is "good enough for configure"
> using while/read and case. You will use the newly-built grep
> after it's, well, built. But nobody uses grep in "make all", so
> it can be substituted unconditionally in Makefiles, and a shell
> function can replace the dummygrep binary.
>
> This is the patch:
>
> 2010-11-14 Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
>
> * configure.ac (fn_grep): New. Set GREP and EGREP to it,
> replace with newly-built grep before AC_OUTPUT.
Good idea to use a shell function. That patch looks fine, but
please reference the bug report and reporter in the commit log.
- Re: [bug #31646] grep fails to build on Solaris 10, because it lacks grep, Jim Meyering, 2010/11/14
- Re: [bug #31646] grep fails to build on Solaris 10, because it lacks grep, Bruno Haible, 2010/11/14
- Re: [bug #31646] grep fails to build on Solaris 10, because it lacks grep, Jim Meyering, 2010/11/14
- Re: [bug #31646] grep fails to build on Solaris 10, because it lacks grep, Bruno Haible, 2010/11/14
- Re: [bug #31646] grep fails to build on Solaris 10, because it lacks grep, Paolo Bonzini, 2010/11/14
- Re: [bug #31646] grep fails to build on Solaris 10, because it lacks grep,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: [bug #31646] grep fails to build on Solaris 10, because it lacks grep, Bruno Haible, 2010/11/14
- Re: [bug #31646] grep fails to build on Solaris 10, because it lacks grep, Paolo Bonzini, 2010/11/14
- Re: [bug #31646] grep fails to build on Solaris 10, because it lacks grep, Florin Iucha, 2010/11/14
- Re: [bug #31646] grep fails to build on Solaris 10, because it lacks grep, Paolo Bonzini, 2010/11/14
- Re: [bug #31646] grep fails to build on Solaris 10, because it lacks grep, Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/11/14
Re: [bug #31646] grep fails to build on Solaris 10, because it lacks grep, Bruno Haible, 2010/11/14