On 4/12/26 13:32, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 2026-04-12 10:15, Dennis Clarke wrote:Sadly I can not find a line that looks exactly like that.OK, then please try the attached patch against grep-3.12's configure.
No joy .. or very limited joy. Same result.alpha$ /opt/bw/bin/patch --verbose --backup -p1 -i /mnt/users/dclarke/backup/centauri/20260413/grep.diff
Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me... The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |diff -ru grep-3.12/configure grep-3.12a/configure |--- grep-3.12/configure 2025-04-10 09:02:07.000000000 -0700 |+++ grep-3.12a/configure 2026-04-12 10:20:30.446800680 -0700 -------------------------- patching file configure Hunk #1 succeeded at 8132. Hunk #2 succeeded at 8266. Hunk #3 succeeded at 63018. Hmm... Ignoring the trailing garbage. done alpha$ alpha$ pwd /opt/bw/build/grep-3.12_OpenBSD_alpha_21164.006 alpha$ date -u Mon Apr 13 00:27:49 UTC 2026 alpha$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/bw --disable-silent-rules \ > --enable-dependency-tracking --enable-threads=posix \ > --enable-gcc-warnings=no \ > --with-libsigsegv --with-libsigsegv-prefix=/opt/bw \ > --with-libiconv-prefix=/opt/bw --with-gnu-ld \> --with-packager='GENUNIX Mon Apr 13 00:30:15 UTC 2026' 2>&1 | tee `pwd`.config.log
configure: error: no working 'grep' found A working 'grep' command is needed to build GNU Grep. This 'grep' should support -e and long lines. On Solaris 10, install the package SUNWggrp or SUNWxcu4. On Solaris 11, install the package text/gnu-grep or system/xopen/xcu4. alpha$ ls -la config.log -rw-r--r-- 1 dclarke devl 62358 Apr 13 00:30 config.log alpha$ This is bizarre. Are we into some strange autotools hell rat-hole here ? -- -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken
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