On 15 Jan 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Allan> On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Roland Krause wrote:
> >> Allan, a quick follow up.
> >>
> >> The generic solaris make definitely does not work. Upgrading gmake
> >> to version 3.79 finally solved the problem.
>
> Allan> According to other reports we have, we only had to remove the
> Allan> ':' for Sun's make to be happy. It may be a version thing I
> Allan> suppose.
>
> The := syntax is a GNU make extension.
I know. But someone else had said they could compile using Sun's make if
we made the change. Roland says he still can't even after the change. So
I figured the "version thing" was versions of Sun's make.
> >> Further, Solaris generic grep (/usr/bin/grep) does not know the
> >> option -E, /usr/xpg/bin/grep does.
>
> Allan> Does everyone have an egrep?
>
> Why do you need this -E?
That's the way someone wrote it originally. egrep or `grep -E` is the
best tool for the job given that we want to find files with "_(\".*\")"
in them. `grep grep po/Makefile.in.in` to see why.
Allan. (ARRae)
