Rainer Orth <[email protected]> writes: > 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.
You're not alone. Unfortunately, protests didn't go anywhere. > > Rainer sam
