[Gm2] Odd failure on Solaris 9 (sparc)

[john o goyo]

Greetings:

An attempt to build GM2 Release 0.44 rewarded me with the following woes. 
(This happened in both ilp32 and i32lp64 modes, which are not configured in 
separate directories under separate accounts.)

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cd gm2; \
if echo -DIN_GCC  | grep -e -DCROSS_COMPILE; then \
            AR=`echo ar | sed -e "s/^ //"` ; \
            export AR ; \
            /bin/bash -c '..//home/build/prj/gcc-3.3.2-gm2/gcc/gm2/configure 
--srcdir=..//home/build/prj/gcc-3
.3.2-gm2/gcc/gm2 --target=sparcv9-sun-solaris2 --program-suffix= 
--includedir=/usr/include' ; \
        else \
            /bin/bash -c '..//home/build/prj/gcc-3.3.2-gm2/gcc/gm2/configure 
--srcdir=..//home/build/prj/gcc-3
.3.2-gm2/gcc/gm2 --target=sparcv9-sun-solaris2 --program-suffix=' ; \
        fi
grep: illegal option -- e
grep: illegal option -- D
grep: illegal option -- C
grep: illegal option -- R
grep: illegal option -- O
grep: illegal option -- S
grep: illegal option -- S
grep: illegal option -- _
grep: illegal option -- C
grep: illegal option -- O
grep: illegal option -- M
grep: illegal option -- P
grep: illegal option -- I
grep: illegal option -- L
grep: illegal option -- E
Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
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The release builds without incident (and passes gm2.paranoid) on Intel-based 
Linux.  One surmises that some constant is not being passed along.

Please advise.

Sincerely,
john