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

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