GNU bug report logs - #17493
new snapshot available: grep-2.18.146-ebf3

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 19:02:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 17493 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini <at> gnu.org>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>, 17493 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: TP coordinator <coordinator <at> translationproject.org>,
 platform-testers <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17493: new snapshot available: grep-2.18.146-ebf3
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 21:23:15 +0200

Il 14/05/2014 20:45, Jim Meyering ha scritto:
> There have been no reports of build or test failures, other
> than the Solaris /bin/sh one for which Paul Eggert wrote
> the patch listed below.
>
> Some have raised the issue that egrep and fgrep are now
> shell scripts (they were executables in 2.18), and thus
> won't work in a system without a bourne shell. We expect
> to accommodate the usage of those obsolescent wrappers
> for "grep -E" and "grep -F" on such fringe systems with
> a 2.20 release that will follow soon after.

I'm appalled.

Paolo
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