Re: Automake patch to not assume egrep or fgrep

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Tom Tromey <address@hidden>
> Date: 02 Jun 2002 06:53:04 -0600
> 
> You'd better update the GNU coding standards then.
> They explicitly reference and allow both egrep and fgrep.

Yes, I sent in a patch for that recently (soon after I sent in the
Automake patch).

> is this system you're using a "real" system, or some experimental
> standards-conformance platform that won't be seen "in the wild"?

A bit of both.  These days I'm working with a new box on my desk at
work that boots and runs GNU/Linux.  Its external dimensions are
120x170x30mm and it weighs 282 grams.  The box is a "wild" box: I
didn't design it, and it doesn't attempt to be pedantic about the new
POSIX standard.

This box has grep, but it lacks egrep and fgrep.

Admittedly I don't use this box to run Automake (yet :-).  But I think
we will soon see more boxes that lack egrep and fgrep.  In the
meantime, I've been using a development environment that is a bit
pickier about POSIX 1003.1-2001, and I use that to catch some of the
conformance problems.