Re: Building in Solaris 11.4

[Eric Blake]

On 6/24/20 4:48 PM, Eric Blake wrote:

> grep -e is also a non-portable construct; it might be possible to change 
> that line to call egrep instead, or to rewrite the regex to not need 
> extended regex.
>
> As a short-term workaround, you can always do:
>
> /path/to/bash ./configure
>
> to run it under a shell that won't choke on our use of non-posix 
> constructs.

that will avoid the problems with local, but not necessarily the problem 
with a missing 'grep -e'.  A common approach there is to set $GREP up 
front to something capable, but then you have to scrub for uses of grep 
in configure to be replaced with $GREP.

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