Re: configure on FreeBSD reports "grep: The -P option is not supported"

[Vincent Fu <vincentfu@gmail.com>]

On 9/19/22 09:15, Rebecca Cran wrote:
> On 9/19/22 07:12, Vincent Fu wrote:
>> On 9/18/22 23:33, Rebecca Cran wrote:
>>> It looks like commit 7ff204c83595cd7d6b7b6a813d9fda97afd25198 
>>> introduced an error on some systems such as FreeBSD, whose grep 
>>> doesn't support -P.
>>>
>>> num() {
>>>    echo "$1" | grep -P -q "^[0-9]+$"
>>> }
>>>
>>> ./configure now reports:
>>>
>>> grep: The -P option is not supported
>>> seed_buckets                  4
>>>
>>> Is -P required?
>>>
>>
>> Hello Bex,
>>
>> Does it work for you to replace -P with -E?
>>
>> Alternatively, what if we replaced grep with
>>
>> test "$1" -eq "$1" 2>/dev/null
> 
> 
> Replacing it with -E works.
> 
> 
Bex, change committed here:

https://github.com/axboe/fio/commit/d14687025c0c61d047e4252036d1b024d62cb0a6

Thanks.

Vincent