On Sunday 25 April 2010 20:49, Christopher Barry wrote: > On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 18:42 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > On Friday 23 April 2010 21:15, Christopher Barry wrote: > > > Hi everyone. > > > > > > I've upgraded to v1.16.1, and grep appears to no longer have the '-w' > > > option. I have every option in the menuconfig checked in the 'finding > > > utilities' section, not sure what I'm doing wrong. Below are the outputs > > > of grep --help in both versions. > > > > > > Anyone have any ideas about what I may not be configuring correctly? > > > > You (perhaps accidentally) switched off DESKTOP option. > > > > DESKTOP option adds extra functionality to grep?? Wow. Is that really on > purpose? I'm not building BB for a desktop scenario, so I definitely > switched that off - in fact I never even looked in there, as I just > assumed, as it's name certainly implies, that it was a bunch of extra, > unneeded, desktopy fluff.
What is needed and what is not needed will vary depending on user. > Curious, why are additional grep parameters hidden in a completely > unrelated option group? Seems like 'Finding Utilities' was already > available (and indeed has the other grep options), and would be the > logical location for that kind of thing. Is having grep isolate on word > boundaries, a core functionality of grep I would argue, related to a > DESKTOP in some way that I'm simply not grokking? Easy: just send a patch which make it possible to select this option with dedicated CONFIG_FEATURE_GREP_FOO. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
