Re: gzip 1.3.9 on IRIX 5.3 feedback

Ralf Wildenhues wrote: and I'd call IRIX an, umm, rather less important target, [snip] I wouldn't! :-) Well, maybe 5.3. :-) My IRIX is 6.5. (Also I have GNU grep anyway; my process for building GNU software assumes that for anything /other/ than make, awk, grep and sed, that the aforementio

Re: gzip 1.3.9 on IRIX 5.3 feedback

[ apologies for the resend ] Continuing : * Paul Eggert wrote on Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:08:24PM CET: > Georg Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > sure, but in that case it would make sense to have configure not fail > > if -e doe

Re: gzip 1.3.9 on IRIX 5.3 feedback

Georg Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sure, but in that case it would make sense to have configure not fail > if -e does not work, or not to check for it in the first place. Autoconf could probably be modified to prefer a grep that supports -e to one that does not. But I'm not sure why it

Re: gzip 1.3.9 on IRIX 5.3 feedback

Am 20.12.2006 um 17:50 schrieb Matthew Woehlke: I'm still wondering how I can get away with a grep that does not support -e. It seems it is not needed at all to build gzip? Could be, that's why I said "if you are then able to build gzip I guess you are OK". :-) sure, but in that case i

Re: gzip 1.3.9 on IRIX 5.3 feedback

Georg Schwarz wrote: Am 20.12.2006 um 17:37 schrieb Matthew Woehlke: Here is what I get on IRIX 6.5: $ echo foo | /sbin/grep -e 'fo\?' $ echo foo | grep -e 'fo\?' foo $ grep --version grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1 on IRIX 5.3 however: lorenz 54% echo foo | /sbin/grep -e 'fo\?' Illegal option -- e Us

Re: gzip 1.3.9 on IRIX 5.3 feedback

Am 20.12.2006 um 17:37 schrieb Matthew Woehlke: Yes, that looks like the problem. Here is what I get on IRIX 6.5: $ echo foo | /sbin/grep -e 'fo\?' $ echo foo | grep -e 'fo\?' foo $ grep --version grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1 on IRIX 5.3 however: lorenz 54% echo foo | /sbin/grep -e 'fo\?' Illegal

Re: gzip 1.3.9 on IRIX 5.3 feedback

Georg Schwarz wrote: Now here are the details: [snip] doing a ./configure in the freshly untared gzip-1.3.9 sources yields: ... checking for a POSIX-compliant shell... no configure: WARNING: using /bin/sh, even though it does not conform to POSIX checking for grep that handles long lines and -e

Re: gzip 1.3.9 on IRIX 5.3 feedback

Am 20.12.2006 um 16:57 schrieb Matthew Woehlke: Georg Schwarz wrote: Am 20.12.2006 um 01:20 schrieb Matthew Woehlke: Is /usr/sbin in your path? (Does 'which grep' or 'type grep' find it?) yes, it is. But configure does not seem to care at this point, using only a set of fixed paths to sear

Re: gzip 1.3.9 on IRIX 5.3 feedback

Georg Schwarz wrote: Am 20.12.2006 um 01:20 schrieb Matthew Woehlke: Is /usr/sbin in your path? (Does 'which grep' or 'type grep' find it?) yes, it is. But configure does not seem to care at this point, using only a set of fixed paths to search for 'find'. As I said, the same issue exists wi

Re: gzip 1.3.9 on IRIX 5.3 feedback

Am 20.12.2006 um 01:20 schrieb Matthew Woehlke: Is /usr/sbin in your path? (Does 'which grep' or 'type grep' find it?) yes, it is. But configure does not seem to care at this point, using only a set of fixed paths to search for 'find'. As I said, the same issue exists with other recent G

Re: gzip 1.3.9 on IRIX 5.3 feedback

Georg Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just want to let you know that as with recent versions of some > other GNU tools gzip 1.3.9's configure on IRIX 5.3 fails to locate > grep which is located in /usr/sbin. Thanks for reporting this, but are you sure about that?

gzip 1.3.9 on IRIX 5.3 feedback

Dear gzip authors, I just want to let you know that as with recent versions of some other GNU tools gzip 1.3.9's configure on IRIX 5.3 fails to locate grep which is located in /usr/sbin. To work around that issue it is sufficient to configure with env GREP=/usr/sbin/grep. Apart from that t