Re: on SunOS "grep -e" fails

[Elmar Rudigier]

For information:

before upgrading to libtool-1.5.10 i have already used
automake-1.9.3 and
autoconf-2.95

lg
Elmar


Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:53:43PM CET:
>
> > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >
> > > > On SunOS grep, which is installed in /usr/bin, doesn't accept the option
> > > > '-e'. But there is another grep installed on the system (in 
> > > > /usr/xpg4/bin),
> > > > which accept this option.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe it's possible to check if which grep accepts this option?
> > >
> > > That should already be done (i.e., the xpg4 version should be chosen
> > > automagically).
> >
> > The xpg4 version is not in the Solaris default path, therefore, it is 
> > unlikely to be noticed by autoconf.
>
>
> Well, new enough Autoconf checks for {,e,f}grep in /usr/xpg4/bin as
> well, and checks for -e and acceptance of long lines.  But I failed to
> see that this check is in 2.59b only, not 2.54.
> (I checked this now on a Solaris machine :)
>
> Is there an easy way to replace AC_PROG_EGREP with a better version in
> libtool.m4 iff Autoconf's version is not good enough?
> We can hardly force Libtool users to Autoconf 2.59b.
>
> I don't think we can fix all calls to {,e,f}grep and $EGREP, because
> some of the arguments are user input (but I only checked briefly).
>
> Elmar wrote that a Libtool update fixed this, but I still think that
> together with old Automake this failure could possibly show up
> somewhere.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf

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