Re: compiling grep without using grep

[Jim Meyering]

Richter, Daniel wrote:
> I am trying to build grep 2.7 from source on Lynx OS 4.0. The
> configure commmand returns the following:
>
> Checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... configure: error:
> no acceptable grep could be found in: /bin:/.....
>
> So obviously grep tries to use itself in order to build itself ;-) Is
> there some way to compile grep without having a suitable grep
> already???

Thanks for pointing that out.
That problem has been fixed since the 2.7 release.
Here's the change:

    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=21de5e00a99d3cb7

I've just made a snapshot that includes that fix:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.grep.bugs/3509