From: Vincent Fu <vincentfu@gmail.com>
To: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com>,
fio@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: configure on FreeBSD reports "grep: The -P option is not supported"
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 09:12:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9295573b-a112-eaba-f441-99ccad62d5c8@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b55f5b3-ae72-b99a-9fe1-04d60ba7161e@bsdio.com>
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
Vincent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-19 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-19 3:33 configure on FreeBSD reports "grep: The -P option is not supported" Rebecca Cran
2022-09-19 13:12 ` Vincent Fu [this message]
2022-09-19 13:15 ` Rebecca Cran
2022-09-19 14:24 ` Vincent Fu
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