Re: [bug #31646] grep fails to build on Solaris 10, because it lacks grep

[Florin Iucha]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 05:31:25PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Florin, can you try building GNU sed and see if it has a similar problem?

The released (4.2) version?

address@hidden sed-4.2]$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
checking for a BSD-compatible install... build-aux/install-sh -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... build-aux/install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... nawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... cc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... no
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking for cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of cc... none
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking build system type... i386-pc-solaris2.10
checking host system type... i386-pc-solaris2.10
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... configure: error: no 
acceptable grep could be found in 
/usr/local/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/opt/solstudio12.2/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin

If I install the SUNWxcu4 package (that provides /usr/xpg4/bin/grep) then sed 
configures successfully without GNU grep.

Best,
florin


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