Re: [platform-testers] bug#17493: new snapshot available: grep-2.18.146-ebf3

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 14/05/2014 20:45, Jim Meyering ha scritto:
> There have been no reports of build or test failures, other
> than the Solaris /bin/sh one for which Paul Eggert wrote
> the patch listed below.
>
> Some have raised the issue that egrep and fgrep are now
> shell scripts (they were executables in 2.18), and thus
> won't work in a system without a bourne shell. We expect
> to accommodate the usage of those obsolescent wrappers
> for "grep -E" and "grep -F" on such fringe systems with
> a 2.20 release that will follow soon after.

I'm appalled.

Paolo