Re: any chance to workaround again "buggy" grep -e on SVR4?

[Petr Sumbera]

On 10/21/12 08:20 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 10/19/2012 07:07 AM, Petr Sumbera wrote:

> Is there some reason that Oracle has never added the -e option to grep?
> Could you please file a bug report for that?  It's been many years now
> that -e has been in the POSIX standard, and there's no compatibility reason
> why /usr/bin/grep -e should fail to work.

No reason I'm aware of. There is already filed bug for it:

7014264 /usr/bin/grep should have -e -f -x -E and -F options

> Anyway, I pushed the following workaround.  It assumes that you have
> a more standard 'grep' floating around somewhere, which is pretty much
> true on Solaris these days.

Thanks!

Yes. We have ggrep. Where on S10/S9 it's not in default path 
(/usr/sfw/bin). And it seems that your new check is also happy with: 
/usr/xpg4/bin/grep.

Btw. Can we update also tests/init.cfg to use $GREP version found during 
configure? Or eventually remove this check..

Thanks,

Petr