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Re: grep 2.5 make install fails with error: symbolix link
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Stepan Kasal |
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Re: grep 2.5 make install fails with error: symbolix link |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:48:02 +0100 |
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Hello,
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 08:31:21PM +0000, Karel Kulhav? wrote:
> If egrep and fgrep symbolic links exist during installation of grep
> (make install from the source tarball), the make install crashes with error.
> One must manually remove them BOTH and rerun the make install.
>
> I consider this being a bug. Do you consider it being a bug too?
it surely is a bug. For future releases, things changed: shell wrappers
will be installed instead of symlinks.
The reason is that the behaviour of a program should not depend on its
name. If you mind the performance hit, use "grep -F" and "grep -E"
instead of fgrep and egrep, respectivelly. The fgrep and egrep cmds
are considered deprecated.
It was hard for me to swallow the above change, I admit.
But I think it worth it to give up some parts of the UNIX tradition.
Mej se,
Stepan Kasal