Re: AIX grep limitation: coreutils build failure

[Sam Sirlin]

   Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 17:16:50 +0200
   From: Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>
...
   FWIW, I'm not totally sure this is exactly the bug that Sam reported.
   (The line may be longer or shorter on Solaris; there, /usr/xpg4/bin/grep
   is documented to have a limit of LINE_MAX = 2.48 bytes (Solaris 2.6);
   the config.status lines are slightly shorter than the Makefile ones,
   so it may be possible he saw the latter issue trigger but not the
   former.)
   What do you think?

BTW I use gnu grep 2.5.1 on solaris (first in my path), and configure
seems to pick that as well. Also GNU sed version 4.1.4, GNU Make 3.81.
/bin/sh is the system default. Perhaps configure really requires bash?
Apparently not, as modifying the top of configure to use bash doesn't
help, and even setenv SHELL bash doesn't help. 

Sam Sirlin
Email: address@hidden