Hi Jonathan,
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 at 18:40, Rainer Orth wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
>> > POSIX says fgrep is obsolescent and grep -F should be used instead.
>>
>> grep -F isn't portable, unfortunately At least it's not supported by
>> Solaris /bin/grep). It may be necessary to use AC_PROG_FGREP and
>> substitute the result into the script.
>
> Ah OK, thanks. In that case, it seems easier to just leave it as fgrep
> and the handful of people who need to run genfixes can ignore any
> warnings from GNU fgrep.
probably. I consider the warnings from GNU fgrep and egrep just
extremly annoying and not helpful at all.
Rainer
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