Re: compiling grep without using grep

[Jim Meyering]

Richter, Daniel wrote:
> thank you for the quick reply. I tried your snapshot and concerning
> my problem with the grep version it does the trick. However configure
> now somehow hangs after some time, at different places as it seems.
> There are two processes of configure running, even when I give the
> system a fresh start (Lynx OS 4.0). Maybe this is also fine but
> configure just freezes at some point and I can only kill it from
> another shell.
> Maybe you have some idea what this could be...Anyway thank you so far
> for your help :-)

Thank you for confirming the fix.  However, regarding your new problem,
we'll need more info to understand it.
Can you determine how your second configure process is started,
what command line arguments, if any, it has?

Oh, and I've re-added the mailing list address.
It's better to retain that Cc:, in case someone else
encounters the same problem.