At 4:19 PM -0700 5/11/08, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Is dovecot *really* that picky about grep, or did it just happen to
pick up an autoconf that's being overly pedantic?
XPG4 says grep needs to take '-e PATTERN' and a normal installation
of Solaris has a standard grep in /usr/xpg4/bin that should do the
trick.
You will have nothing but pain if you try to build cross-platform
software on Solaris without the packages that populate /usr/xpg4.
I saw this message a couple of times when googling, but no
particularly good solution presents itself. I'll probably give it a
new GNU grep just to get it to shut up, but I'm a bit surprised.
Don't be. Solaris has had its own set of SysV-lineage utilities in
/usr/bin and standard versions as needed under /usr/xpg4.
I tried to compile dovecot in an OpenSolaris 2008.5 system in a zone
(which is quite a bit more minimal than base OpenSolaris).
bash-3.2# uname -a
SunOS postfix-s0 5.11 snv_86 i86pc i386 i86pc
bash-3.2# ./configure --help
`configure' configures dovecot 1.0.12 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
bash-3.2# which grep
/usr/bin/grep
bash-3.2# grep -v
Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
bash-3.2# which egrep
/usr/bin/egrep
Error in configure:
checking for cc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of cc... (cached) none
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... configure:
error: no acceptable grep could be found in
/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin
Thanks,
-a
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Bill Cole
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