On Sunday 18 September 2005 17:35, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > > In principle the patches look okay to me. We don't need to test for > > grep ``-v'' though I think: AFAIK it's a pretty standard flag. Not > > sure about ``-E'' and ``-q'': they are defined POSIX -- where don't > > they exist? > > All grep binaries I've seen support both -v and -q. I thought we could > still test them as it doesn't cost us much, but I can drop these tests > if you think they are needless.
I'd rather not add totally useless tests. The will just bitrot and break. > Solaris' /usr/bin/grep doesn't support -E, so I really want this test in > quilt's configure. It's easy to not use ``grep -E'' at all. There were only a few instances, so we don't need this test anymore. Thanks, Andreas. _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
