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Re: [PATCH/RFC] SunOS grep does not understand -C<n>

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jul 24, 2009, 05:41 UTC
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:30:07PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> 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
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