Re: [PATCH] build: fix a subtly twisted "make distcheck" failure

[Paul Eggert]

On 06/04/2012 02:23 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> The existence of a large sparse test file named 8T-or-so
> would make po/Makefile.in.in's use of grep (to search for "GNU grep"
> as an indication that this is a GNU package) exit 2

Hah!  This is a grep performance bug I've been meaning to fix for
months.  I'll try to bump the priority.  Such searches
should be able to skip holes.