Re: Failing test on Solaris 8 Sparc w/Sun Studio 11

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Jim,

Am 28.01.2010 um 14:36 schrieb Jim Meyering:
> Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> ...
> > > It already prepends "$(bindir):" to $PATH (bindir is $prefix/bin).
> > > Does that not work for you?
> >
> > Unfortunately not, as grep gets installed as ggrep to allow explicit
> > selection of greps. Sorry, I didn't thought of this when I wrote my
> > previous email. Looks like for me the explicit selection with
> >  --with-grep=/opt/csw/bin/ggrep
> > would be best.
>
> That's not needed, since zgrep can already accommodate that.
> Just set the GREP envvar to the name you happen to use:
>
>  export GREP=ggrep
>
> Then, it should "just work".

Ok, but this would also move the burden of "fixing" to the enduser,
whereas I as packages could take care of it by hardcoding the path
with a configure option.

In your usecase you assume the user of gzip is also the person who
is compiling it. In my case this is not true as I am compiling it
for other people who use it and expect to use it without any
modifications from them apart from installing the package, and
I cannot change the user environment at package installation.


Best regards

  -- Dago