--- Lars Hecking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> Then egrep should be used. -E is not a portable option for grep.
>
But is egrep portable? Is the grep in question here GNU grep? AFAIK '^ *+' is
a regular expression and not an extended regular expression.
Cheers,
=====
---
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