Re: texi2dvi fails in faq

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Sep-2010, Michael D Godfrey wrote:

| I just noticed in the faq Makefile:
| EGREP = /usr/local/bin/grep -E
| 
| This does not help, now that egrep is an independent
| program. (Why did they do this???)

Do you mean in the Octave doc/faq/Makefile?  If so, that line is put
there by automake/autoconf/configure.  I guess your system has a copy of
grep in /usr/local/bin, and /usr/local/bin is ahead of /usr/bin or
/bin in your path?  But I'm not sure why the autotools prefer to use
"grep -E" instead of egrep.

jwe