Re: fix for compiling grep 2.5.1 on beos [PATCH]

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello Andrew,
        thank you very much for your bug report and the patch.

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 10:16:10PM -0700, Andrew Bachmann wrote:
> I apologize if patches shouldn't be submitted to the list but I could
> not find a better address. (the bug list didn't quite seem appropriate
> - or is it?)

this is a good list to reach developers interseted in grep, so it is a
good list for patches.
The list address@hidden would be even more appropriate, as GNU grep is
a part of the GNU project, so it's good to have all bug reports archived
at one place.  (I'm cc'ing this mail to bug-grep.)

> [...] grep-2.5.1.tar.gz and tried to build it on beos. [...]
> S_ISSOCK(stats->stat.st_mode)

Instead of your suggestion:

> #if !defined(DJGPP) && !defined(__BEOS__)

I have decided to fix it by a slightly different way then you suggested,
see below.

> For completeness I also tried compiling from the cvs and I got a mess
> of various errors.  This is probably due to the fact that my autoconf
> generation isn't working right on this box.

I'm afraid it may be our fault.  The autoconf script has not been updated
for a long time, and plenty of changes should be made to catch up.

BTW: Can I save your e-mail and eventually ask you to test whether grep
compiles on BeOS?

Yours,
        Stepan Kasal