On 2022-06-24, Rainer Orth wrote:
Hi Xi,
On Fri, 2022-06-24 at 09:24 +0200, Rainer Orth wrote:
please remember that there's a world outside of GNU grep: e.g. Solaris
/bin/grep doesn't support grep -E (while /usr/xpg4/bin/grep does), so
unconditionally replacing egrep with grep -E in several places is
likely
to break at least the Solaris build.
Please see the autoconf manual for details. I suspect you'll have to
rework the patch set to use AC_PROG_EGREP and $EGREP instead.
Thanks for the advice. I'll rework on it.
Is there some way to access a Solaris and do some test?
Sure: there's a Solaris 11.3/SPARC system (gcc211)in the GCC compile
farm (https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm).
Unfortunately, there's neither Solaris 11.4 or Solaris/x86 at the
moment, but those don't differ in this regard.
Rainer
FWIW: glibc recently got the grep -E change and the solution is to use
plain grep -E, without $EGREP things.
Isn't setting PATH a good workaround if Solaris has the problem?
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-June/139420.html
Yes, it is safe nowadays to use 'grep -E' instead of egrep. The only
vendor-supported platform I know of where '/usr/bin/grep -E' does not
work is Solaris 10 (end-of-life January 2024), and that's easily fixed
by prepending /usr/xpg4/bin to PATH.
