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grep's ./configure doesn't work with plain /bin/sh

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Message #17 received at 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: L A Walsh <bash <at> tlinx.org>
To: Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-bash <bug-bash <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#35681: grep's ./configure doesn't work with plain /bin/sh
Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 01:14:24 -0700

On 5/10/2019 3:49 PM, Miro Kropáček wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found this today by accident - it seems that grep's ./configure
> doesn't work with so called minimal bash (enabled in bash's configure
> via --enable-minimal-config).
>
> One can verify that not only by the failed ./configure process but
> also by content of config.log - there are several messages like:
>
> configure:3536: error: fn_grep: expected pattern
>
> Tested on the latest (3.3) version. If there are good reasons why
> ./configure needs full bash, I guess it shouldn't reference /bin/sh in
> that case.
>
> Cheers,
> Miro
>
>
>   
Is it documented somewhere that bash's minimal config is POSIX compliant?
I'm not sure, off hand.

cc: bug-bash for comments there:

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