"back in the day" & IIRC: Octave required modern GNU grep to handle locale correctly; the built-in grep wasn't guaranteed to do so. That was probably with some 3.X series. With the 4.X series maybe it's no longer necessary; IDK. Worth testing, IMHO. - MLD
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018, at 7:55 AM, Jan Stary wrote: > On Jul 21 12:21:55, [email protected] wrote: > > * math/octave > > Depends on GNU grep, GNU sed, and all that. > > I'll check with math/octave. > > Eh, that would take _days_ on my machine. Not touching that. > > Does anyone now why octave wants GNU grep etc? > What exactly breaks if it uses the system grep, find, sed, flex? > > Jan
