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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#17722: Makefile rule fix and cleanup patches |
Date: | Fri, 06 Jun 2014 17:16:02 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 |
Jim Meyering wrote:
using scripts for egrep and fgrep may be removed
Let's not remove the scripts, as they're better on platforms where they're supported. Users of a script can more-easily understand and modify what it does, which is a better match for the GNU project's overarching goals.
Instead, we should use scripts on GNUish platforms, and fall back on binary executables only on platforms that don't have a working shell.
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