Re: AIX grep limitation: coreutils build failure

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Paul,

* Paul Eggert wrote on Mon, May 29, 2006 at 11:19:31AM CEST:
> 
> OK, thanks, how about this fix instead?

This is fine with me, thank you.

> (My reluctance to use tr is due to the fact that we don't rely on it
> now, so why add it....)

Fine with me, too.  Please note though that tr is used in
lib/autotest/general.m4 and lib/autoconf/status.m4 already.

To cope with limited grep, coreutils is still missing the Automake
patch.  I guess you could also choose to ignore this, as both of these
failures happen on AIX <= 5.1.  Advising people to
  --disable-dependency-tracking

there helps get around the missing Automake patch, too (but not the
patch we're currently discussing).

We still don't know what that Solaris failure was about, though, I
guess.  Which is one reason I think this change may still be quite
valuable.

Cheers,
Ralf

>       * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE):
>       Don't assume 'grep' works on long lines, since AIX grep doesn't.