[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #63174] New build warnings about egrep with grep 3.8

[Arun Giridhar]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63174>

                 Summary: New build warnings about egrep with grep 3.8
                 Project: GNU Octave
               Submitter: arungiridhar
               Submitted: Thu 06 Oct 2022 05:03:25 PM EDT
                Category: Configuration and Build System
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Unexpected Error or Warning
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: dev
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: GNU/Linux


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Date: Thu 06 Oct 2022 05:03:25 PM EDT By: Arun Giridhar <arungiridhar>
In my latest system update, grep was upgraded to version 3.8 and building
Octave now issues hundreds of these new warnings:

egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E


For my typical build settings, there were 822 of them. I had to redirect
stderr to a file because it was flooding the output.

Evidently this is now default behavior with grep as described here:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Grep-3.8-Stop-egrep-fgrep








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