Re: gettext-0.11.5, make check

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:55:48AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> > +     && access ("/usr/xpg4/bin/grep", X_OK) == 0)
... 
> Also, I recall that a similar problem occurs in other old-line
> operating systems, other than Solaris.  Sorry, don't remember the
> details.  /usr/xpg4 is only in Solaris, though.

we don't have to care about ancient systems.  If someome keeps a museum,
they have to be careful.

But Solaris is the only one (or at least the most famous) company who
happily sells systems with ancient utils today.  For example, significant
number of complaints on comp.lang.awk is regularily answed this way:
use /usr/xpg4/bin/awk or get gawk; the default Solaris awk doesn't work.

So I think it's adequate to have the hack with /usr/xpg4 in the code.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:58:42PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Ideally we would have a GNU libgrep, containing the functionality of
> POSIX/glibc regex + kwset, and msggrep would use it. But I guess we
> are still not there today.

I'd like to do it, eventually.  But I cannot tell when I'll have time :-(

Stepan