On 2023-12-02 19:29, Zack Weinberg wrote:
`grep -q` *is* in POSIX, but I seem to recall tripping over a
system that didn't have it (probably either a Solaris successor, or AIX)
during the run-up to Autoconf 2.71.
Solaris 10 /usr/bin/grep does not support -e, -E, -f, -F, -q, or -x.
Solaris 10
On 12 Apr 2023 18:14, Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for Automake wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 at 17:59, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 at 16:17, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> >
> >> I am bootstrapping GNU a2ps git master[1] with automake 1.16.5. When I do
> >> a parallel build (in my
On Sat, Dec 2, 2023, at 9:08 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 02 Dec 2023 15:53, Karl Berry wrote:
>> Exit status yes, but at least historically, grep -q has been
>> considered non-portable, in favor of grep ... >/dev/null.
>
> i get that `grep -q` is something historically we've avoided, but i
>
On 30 Nov 2023 22:45, Nick Bowler wrote:
> Interestingly the libtool manual also says "If [libtool] can't infer a
> tag, then it defaults to the configuration for the C language", which is
> clearly not the case (it seems what actually happens is that if libtool
> can't infer a tag then it
On 02 Dec 2023 15:53, Karl Berry wrote:
> also, can we really not trust the exit status of grep ?
> if echo "$PERL" | grep -q '[\t ]'; then
>
> Exit status yes, but at least historically, grep -q has been considered
> non-portable, in favor of grep ... >/dev/null.
i get that
(Trying to switch to add to
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=64756.)
this doesn't work on systems that wrap `autom4te`.
Had no idea anyone did that.
grep: /Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: No such file or directory
Oops.
seems like the only reliable option is to invoke
echo "$PERL" | grep '[ \t]'
I don't think there's any portable way to use \t to insert a tab in a
shell string, besides literally. There's something like
tab=`printf '\t'`
.. "$tab" ...
but I don't see a need to go that far here. I just used a literal tab char.
also, can we really
However it looks like there is no tag defined for Objective C[1]
(presumably it would be --tag=OBJC). Adding this option does appear
to make things "work" in the sense that libtool just complains about
the unknown tag but then proceeds to actually do stuff, rather than
exiting
On 27 May 2023 19:12, Karl Berry wrote:
> I (finally) installed this patch to quit early if the perl path has
> spaces. Thanks.
>
> As for MKDIR_P and INSTALL, I guess it is somewhere in the
> prerequisite/autoconf stuff. I suppose it would be rare that they would
> be found in a path with spaces
