On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 at 18:55, Rainer Orth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.

Indeed!

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