Charles Levert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How about this, then? > > We store the grep executable as > > /usr/libexec/grep/2.5.2/i686-pc-linux-gnu/grep
Yes, I thought of that solution this morning as I drove into work. (But you were faster. :-) Do we really need the version number? Why not just install it as $(libexecdir)/grep/grep, say? Also, we should make a hard link from $(libexecdir)/grep/grep to $(bindir)/grep, falling back on a copy if the ln fails. This will avoid one level of indirection in the common case of invoking plain grep. > This executable would no longer support > invocation-name dependent behavior. Yes, that's right. > If symlinks are supported, Yes, we could use them in that case, but hard links would be better if they work. If neither work we can simply copy the file. > Both fgrep and egrep would always be wrappers. Yes. I like this idea. If there's no objection, I'll write up a patch that does this.
