NEWS for GNU grep 2.10 says:
| xz is portable enough and in wide-enough use that distributing
| only .tar.xz files is enough.
FWIW, xz cannot be built with GCC 2.95 (or older), making it
unavailable on some platforms such as OpenBSD/vax.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber
Jim Meyering:
> > FWIW, xz cannot be built with GCC 2.95 (or older), making it
> > unavailable on some platforms such as OpenBSD/vax.
>
> Thanks for the report.
> This is the first I've heard about anyone being unable to build xz.
xz requires a C99 compiler because it intermingles declarations a
Paul Eggert:
> > xz requires a C99 compiler because it intermingles declarations and
> > statements throughout.
>
> So does grep,
I hadn't realized this.
> so I don't see how this is an additional obstacle against building
> grep.
Indeed.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber
In GNU grep 2.24 and earlier, the regression tests
help-version
reversed-range-endpoints
fail if grep is built with a program prefix (I use --program-prefix=g).
-- help-version.log --
/usr/obj/ggrep-2.24/grep-2.24/tests/../src/egrep[2]: ggrep: not found
/usr/obj/ggrep-2.24/gr
