Re: grep-3.5 released [stable]

[Paul Eggert]

On 9/28/20 8:19 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> On 9/28/20 4:08 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > 'configure' automatically looks in /usr/xpg4/bin if none of the grep's
> > found in the PATH suffice. /usr/bin/grep does not suffice.
>
> configure ( once I removed those offending lines checking
> for grep which I have in multiple flavours ) would report this neatly :

We can't remove the 'configure' lines checking for grep, since grep is busted on 
some platforms (including plain Solaris). If those 'configure' lines reject 
/usr/local/bin/grep and /usr/local/bin/egrep on your platform, we need to figure 
out why.

To do that, I suggest running this command on an unmodified grep 3.5 
distribution:

SHELL=/bin/bash bash -x configure CC=cc > configure.log 2>&1

and looking in 'configure.log' for why your 'grep' failed. Attached is the 
relevant part of the output I get with 
PATH='/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/r/share1/src/developerstudio12.6/bin' on Solaris 10 
sparc. How does it compare to yours?

config.log-excerpt
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