GNU bug report logs - #35681
grep's ./configure doesn't work with plain /bin/sh

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 23:27:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
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Subject: bug#35681: closed (grep's ./configure doesn't work with plain
 /bin/sh)
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 09:33:01 +0000

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From: Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: grep's ./configure doesn't work with plain /bin/sh
Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 00:49:15 +0200

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



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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 35681-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: grep's ./configure doesn't work with plain /bin/sh
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 01:32:36 -0800

As this was a bug (now fixed) in Bash not grep, I'm closing the grep bug report.
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 138 days ago.

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