Here is a bug report about Autoconf. I have checked 2.13 and the 2.49a, but both have the same problem. I don't know which should be blamed, grep or autoconf, though. Okuji
Ok, I have found the guilty program. My problem was to be able to compile grub with gcc 2.96 and the glibc 2.9. As suggested, I have checked my version of ncurses: it is 5.1. So not the oldest one. After that, I have tried to identify what was wrong. I found that in the configure script: --- configure.orig Sat Aug 26 18:20:16 2000 +++ configure Sat Aug 26 18:20:39 2000 @@ -1349,7 +1349,7 @@ EOF ac_try="$ac_cpp conftest.$ac_ext >/dev/null 2>conftest.out" { (eval echo configure:1352: \"$ac_try\") 1>&5; (eval $ac_try) 2>&5; } -ac_err=`grep -v '^ *+' conftest.out | grep -v "^conftest.${ac_ext}\$"` +ac_err=`grep -vE '^ *+' conftest.out | grep -v "^conftest.${ac_ext}\$"` if test -z "$ac_err"; then : else The line seems to be a regexp, right! Without the -E or egrep, it won't work on my system (my version of grep is: 2.4.2). Without this patch, the configure script found the ncurses lib but not the include files (from memory curses.h ncurses.h and curses/ncurses.h or something like that). That's it, regards, Mathieu. -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity" -- William of Occam --
