On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 08:51, Matt Schalit wrote:
>
> I'm not experienced with enough platforms to tell why
> line 5148 in libtool-1.4.2 configure doesn't call grep -e:
>
> if { (eval echo configure:5149: \"$archive_cmds 2\>\&1 \| grep \" -lc \" \
> >/dev/null 2\>\&1\") 1>&5; (eval $archive_cmds 2\>\&1 \| grep \" -lc \" \>/dev/n
> ull 2\>\&1) 2>&5; }
>
>
>
> Doesn't grep -e exist on your computers? On my unix box,
> which is UnixWare 7.1.1, grep -e is required to protect grep
> from interpreting the -lc as another switch. (grep returns
> a 2 for syntax error every time with this configure line)
I'll leave that for someone else to answer; I'm guessing its some
sort of portability issue.
> Please advise. I can't get any response from the bug-libtool
> list so far, and I'm not sure the best way to fix all six configures
> that are in that distro. Thanks.
> Matthew
The proper place will likely be libtool.m4 (provided the problem is in
a libtool-related configure test); any changes to that file will
propagate to all configure scripts after running the bootstrap script
in the top of the libtool tree.
