On Jul 21 10:10:14, [email protected] wrote:
> "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
I tried first with port:grep etc (i.e. as the port is now),
but even that does not build (see recent mail to macports-users@).
Jan
> 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
