Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] user-definable tail and grep

[Dean Roehrich]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 11:04:44PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In order to get quilt to run on my Solaris 8 workstation, I would need
> to be able to tell it which tail [1] and grep binaries to use.
> Unfortunately, quilt's configure script doesn't let me do that. Attached
> is a patch addressing the problem. There are surprisingly few calls to
> tail and grep in the quilt scripts (2 and 8, respectively), so these
> changes are less intrusive that I would have first thought.
> 
> Still, given recent discussions about the best way to address
> incompatibility issues, these patches may be controversial, which is why
> I am posting them here first rather than applying them directly (as I'd
> have done a few days ago).

I don't quite see why you would do this without also testing for a specific
feature.  You want a tail that supports -n; there's no point in accepting
anything else.  You also want a grep that supports...hmm, lots of things that
Solaris' /usr/bin/grep and /usr/xpg4/bin/grep don't provide--you want gnu
grep.

The number of --with-foo switches which would be required on something like
Solaris...not pretty.

Dean