Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:41:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> If Paul said it's
> ok to assume `+' is not a meta-character in `grep', I believe it.
You shouldn't believe it. The answer is Plan 9.
OK, that's news to me. But you should be careful: Plan 9 grep is not
the same as traditional grep at all. It uses a syntax that is almost
an extension of POSIX egrep (i.e. it uses EREs, not BREs).
Unfortunately the syntax is not a pure extension of EREs, as the
bracket expression syntax is incompatible.
If you want autoconf to work with Plan 9, you'll probably have more
work to do. For example, the documentation says that Plan 9 does not
have "egrep", so you'll have to remove all uses of egrep (despite what
the GNU coding standards say). And there are undoubtedly other
problems as well.
Can you ask Plan 9 installers to use the Plan 9 ANSI-POSIX Environment
(APE) instead? http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/ape.html claims
that they have a POSIX grep. That might save you some hassles.
