I'll just hack configure after an autoreconf and see what happens ...

[Dennis Clarke]

These lines lie :

if test -n "$GREP" || test -n "$EGREP"; then
  as_fn_error $? "no working 'grep' found
  A working 'grep' command is needed to build GNU Grep.
  This 'grep' should support -e and long lines.
  On Solaris 10, install the package SUNWggrp or SUNWxcu4.
  On Solaris 11, install the package text/gnu-grep or
system/xopen/xcu4." "$LINENO" 5
fi

So I will remove them entirely.

alpha$
alpha$ echo $GREP
/usr/local/bin/grep
alpha$ which grep
/usr/local/bin/grep
alpha$
alpha$ $GREP --version
grep (GNU grep) 3.1
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Mike Haertel and others, see
<http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS>.
alpha$

The configure now proceeds just fine but the compile fails :

Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
stackoverflow_install_handler       ../lib/libgreputils.a(c-stack.o)
sigsegv_install_handler             ../lib/libgreputils.a(c-stack.o)
ld: fatal: symbol referencing errors. No output written to grep
gmake[2]: *** [Makefile:1620: grep] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory
'/opt/bw/build/grep-3.5_sunos5.10_sparcv9.001/src'
gmake[1]: *** [Makefile:1609: all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/opt/bw/build/grep-3.5_sunos5.10_sparcv9.001'
gmake: *** [Makefile:1550: all] Error 2

well, this is progress at least.


Dennis Clarke
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