Developers of Apache 1.3 and 2.0 should know that GNU egrep is broken on some platforms, and on these platforms Apache configure scripts which rely on egrep produce broken builds of Apache. Details follow.
Thanks. This is a known libtool bug which is fixed in (at least) libtool 1.5.10. So, for httpd 2.x, there's little we can directly do to fix this other than upgrade the libtool version we use to package our release. If you have GNU libtool 1.5.10 installed locally, you can just re-run ./buildconf from the httpd directory and you'll be fine.
I will note that httpd 2.1.1 was created with libtool 1.5.10. So, it doesn't have this problem out of the box (although it is only an alpha and not suited for general release otherwise).
It's probably time for us to mandate libtool 1.5.10 across the board for our upcoming 2.2 series (along with autoconf 2.5x). libtool 1.4.3 is just way too old and crufty to be expected to work today.
As for Apache 1.3, it's unlikely we could easily eliminate the dependency upon egrep. Patches welcomed though. =) -- justin
