Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem

[Charles Levert]

* On Thursday 2005-06-23 at 17:04:29 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Charles Levert <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> That is, we should use binaries by default.

Ok.  I'm all for this.  I will break those
distribution packages that use symlinks, but
that's the very idea.


> We can improve on
> this later if need be (e.g., by adding an installation-time option to
> do non-conforming installations),

How about something like

   configure --with-wrapper-scripts

?
Is there some precedent for such a configure
option (and its name) in another GNU software?


>       (main): Do not let behavior depend on the name of the program;
>       as required by the GNU coding standards.

Why are you also removing the MS-DOS code to
strip C: off of program_name?