Re: a saner bootstrap script

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Jim,

Sorry I didn't notice your reply sooner.

On 22 Sep 2011, at 23:38, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>>>> * address@hidden:gvvaughan/GNU-coreutils.git in gary/bootstrap
>>>> https://github.com/gvvaughan/GNU-coreutils/commits/gary/bootstrap
> 
> I'll try to find time for this next week.

Thanks.  How did you get on?

I just tried to check that everything in my coreutils bootstrap.conf still
works correctly with coreutils master, but unfortunately coreutils bootstrap
now requires that I install the latest autotools -- including gettext-0.18.1.1
which doesn't compile on Mac OS 10.7.1 with the latest Apple supplied gcc
(4.2.1 LLVM).  And without that, I can no longer bootstrap coreutils on my
Mac :-(

> I glanced through the first few lines of your script and found
> 
>  FGREP=fgrep
>  EGREP=egrep
>  ...
> 
> Please use the more standard grep -F and grep -E instead.

I wasn't aware that it was more portable to expect a vendor grep that
supports -E and -F than to expect a vendor egrep and fgrep binary.  None-
the-less, I applied your suggested change to the master copy of bootstrap
in Zile.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)