On Oct 21, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> I've checked configure, only the check for egrep may fail and does not
> provide any fallback which we could have used. It's only used for the
> documentation generation, Jeff, maybe we can find an alternative to
> egrep for what we use it for?
>
We use it for running latex (i.e., looking for some warning messages
in the latex output to know if we need to run it again). This could
be coded around and/or removed entirely if desired.
However, I notice that libtool makes extensive use of egrep.
Specifically, even if I remove AC_PROG_EGREP, it's checked for later
in configure and is used a lot by libtool.
I'd be surprised if there's a system out there that doesn't have some
flavor of egrep that satisfies AC_PROG_EGREP (especially if Libtool
uses it heavily). Do we know if this is the case, or is this a
hypothetical that a suitable egrep might not be found?
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Jeff Squyres
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