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Re: grep/egrep -w non-portable (doc/Makefile.am)
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Albert Chin |
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Re: grep/egrep -w non-portable (doc/Makefile.am) |
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Wed, 3 Nov 2004 07:32:01 -0600 |
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 01:31:59AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Albert Chin <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > grep/egrep -w is non-portable. HP-UX grep/egrep doesn't grok it.
>
> That won't cause "make check" to fail in the doc directory, will it?
> If it's just some annoying chatter, we can safely ignore it.
It doesn't cause "make check" to fail but it is annoying. How about
using $(GREP) and $(EGREP) and in configure.ac we:
AC_CHECK_PROGS(GREP, [ggrep grep], grep)
AC_CHECK_PROGS(EGREP, [gegrep egrep], egrep)
Or, I could come up with some comparable portable egrep regex.
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albert chin (address@hidden)