Re: Failing test on Solaris 8 Sparc w/Sun Studio 11

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Jim,

Am 28.01.2010 um 14:48 schrieb Jim Meyering:
> Eric Blake wrote:
> > According to Dagobert Michelsen on 1/28/2010 6:39 AM:
> > > > That's not needed, since zgrep can already accommodate that.
> > > > Just set the GREP envvar to the name you happen to use:
> > > >
> > > > export GREP=ggrep
> > > >
> > > > Then, it should "just work".
> > >
> > > Ok, but this would also move the burden of "fixing" to the enduser,
> > > whereas I as packages could take care of it by hardcoding the path
> > > with a configure option.
> >
> > Jim's point is that if you run './configure GREP=ggrep', that  
> > should fix
> > it at configuration time.
>
> Actually, I was talking about setting it from the user's standpoint,
> but if it works via configure, that'd be even better (currently I  
> don't
> see such code, though).

I just tried, it doesn't work. Essentially, the invocation of grep in  
zgrep
needs to be adjusted.


Best regards

  -- Dago