On 07/19/10 10:43, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > IMHO the most dangerous bit of this patch is that I'm unsure why > AC_EGREP_CPP (aka AC_PROGRAM_EGREP earlier) was introduced in the first > place, if there was some portability issue formerly that prevented an > AC_TRY_PREPROC or so.
No, I expect that grep was used primarily because it was "easy" and people hadn't thought through the portability and modularity problems with using the grep approach.
