Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] user-definable tail and grep

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Sunday 18 September 2005 14:44, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Quoting myself:
> > Attached is a patch adding a test for tail -n in configure. While I
> > was there, I did a second patch adding tests for grep -v, -q, -e
> > and -E, which are the four grep options quilt needs.
>
> Attached are updated patches after the recent compatibility changes to
> quilt.
>
> Is it OK to apply them in this form, or is another approach prefered?
> I'm not familiar with the autoconf stuff.

In principle the patches look okay to me. We don't need to test for grep 
``-v'' though I think: AFAIK it's a pretty standard flag. Not sure about 
``-E'' and ``-q'': they are defined POSIX -- where don't they exist?

Thanks,
Andreas.