Hi Nick,

On 8 October 2010 08:51, Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote:
> Eric S Fraga <ucec...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> This is a solution in one sense but the real bug is the egrep
>> expression in texi2dvi which is why it is suggested that a bug report
>> be filed.
>>
>
> texi2dvi includes the following address for bug reports:
>
>         bug-texi...@gnu.org
>
> so maybe *one* of the people filing a bug report with debian/fedora/etc
> should cc: this address. Eric, do you want to do that?
>
> FWIW, I just tried
>
>      echo /foo | egrep '^(/|[A-z]:/)'
>
> on Ubuntu 10.04 and egrep does not complain.

I get "egrep: Invalid range end" on Fedora 13 and works as expected on
Ubuntu 10.04 (pdf export works as expected here).

> Can you guys try
>
>   egrep -V
>
> and see what version of egrep you are running?
>
> On Ubuntu 8.10:  egrep -V says GNU grep 2.5.3
> On Ubuntu 10.04: egrep -V says GNU grep 2.5.4
>
> and neither of these is picky about the regexp.
>

For me,

GNU grep 2.6.3 on Fedora 13  (fails)
GNU grep 2.5.4 on Ubuntu 10.04  (works)

> Thanks,
> Nick
>
>

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Suvayu

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