Thank you Magnus! Patch is tested on AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows, no issues.
Kind Regards, Thomas On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie < magnus.ihse.bur...@oracle.com> wrote: > Looks good to me. > > Since the closed generated-configure needs to be regenerated, I'll sponsor > and push this patch. > > /Magnus > > > On 2017-01-12 14:04, Thomas Stüfe wrote: > > Dear all, > > please take a look at this fix. This should prevent configure from using a > grep which is not able to handle pattern lists with empty patterns. > > Bug:https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8172712 > > webrevs:http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stuefe/webrevs/8172712-configure-should-check-that-grep-handles-empty-pattern-correctly/webrev.00/webrev/ > > Background: > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8172579 was a build error caused > by a buggy grep (on AIX) and the easiest way to work around that bug would > be to use the GNU version of grep. It was suggested in the orginal mail > thread > (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2017-January/018495.html) > to check this in configure. > > This change implements this suggestion and checks if grep behaves correctly. > > Kind Regards, Thomas > > >
