Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> >>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Akim> Question: why do we grep . after grep -v?  It is not guaranteed that
> Akim> grep -v will exit positive when it output something?
> 
> I don't know.  cvs annotate claims you added those lines.  In the past
> we used `wc -l'.  If it works without the extra grep that's fine by
> me.

Yep, I removed the test "`.... | wc -l `" and went to `| grep' which,
IMHO, is more readable, and more Autoconf like.  But I didn't really
think about the usefulness of the | grep after a grep -v.

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