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

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> 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.

Thanks.  That would be most welcome.
It would also be nice not to let grep exit immediately,
abandoning any subsequent command line arguments upon that
particular (or any) out of memory problem.