On Wed, 28 May 2014 11:16:09 +0200
Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes:
> 
> > On 28 May 2014 09:46, Cornelia Huck <cornelia.h...@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> >> The check for big or little endianness relies on grep reporting
> >> match/non-match on the generated binary. If the user specified
> >> --binary-files=without-match in their GREP_OPTIONS, this will fail.
> >> Let's just explicitly specify --binary-files=binary, which will
> >> override any user settings and do what we want.
> >
> > This grep option isn't specified by POSIX so I'm not sure all the hosts
> > we build on will have it. Maybe it would be better to just unset
> > GREP_OPTIONS at the top of configure ?
> 
> That's what autoconf does:
> 
>     # Unset more variables known to interfere with behavior of common tools.
>     CLICOLOR_FORCE= GREP_OPTIONS=
>     unset CLICOLOR_FORCE GREP_OPTIONS
> 
So let's do this for CLICOLOR_FORCE as well, just to be on the safe
side.


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