Hi Eric,
* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 04:27:18AM CET:
> [shifting this conversation to autoconf-patches; see
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.bugs/4096/focus=4100
> for the thread]
>
> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 1/23/2008 3:03 PM:
> |
> | FWIW, as a general (hand-waving) rule, I would rather use POSIX as base
> | from which to document deviations, than BSD or GNU features. That way
> | the Autoconf manual doesn't end up documenting all extensions as such.
>
> Agreed. However, the bit about BSD grep behaving differently based on
> whether input is seekable may be useful to more than this automake test,
> so I'd like to commit this, if others agree.
Fine with me, barring nit below.
Thanks,
Ralf
> +2008-01-23 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> +
> + * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <grep>: Document
> + BSD behavior on binary input.
> +
[...]
> +Posix does not specify behavior of binary files. An example where this
> +matters is using @acronym{BSD} @command{grep} to search for text
> +embedded among @acronym{ANSI} escape sequences for colored output to
> +terminals @command{grep} (where @samp{\033[m} is the sequence to restore
Isn't this last [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' superfluous?
> +normal output):
