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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] SunOS grep does not understand -C<n>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:41:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090724054144.GC6563@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vr5w6tzq8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:30:07PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I noticed that the first "grep -C1" test in t7002 does not pass on my 
> SunOS-5.11-i86pc, and that is not because our way to spawn external
> grep is broken, but because the native grep does not understand -C<n>.
> 
> Is it just me and my installation (i.e. I might have failed to install
> saner grep from the distribution that everybody uses), or everybody on
> SunOS is using this option himself because our Makefile doesn't do that
> automatically for them?
> 
> Just in case it is the latter, here is a proposed patch.

Yes, I've been building with NO_EXTERNAL_GREP for my test box. The grep
from Solaris 8, at least, doesn't understand '-e' either, which causes
it to fail many other tests.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-24  5:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-24  5:30 [PATCH/RFC] SunOS grep does not understand -C<n> Junio C Hamano
2009-07-24  5:41 ` Jeff King [this message]
2009-07-24  6:27   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-07-24  7:09     ` Jeff King
2009-07-24  6:29 ` [PATCH/RFC] FreeBSD iconv function signature is "old" Junio C Hamano
2009-12-26  9:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-07-24 15:43 ` [PATCH/RFC] SunOS grep does not understand -C<n> Brandon Casey
2009-07-24 15:55   ` Junio C Hamano

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