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GNU grep 3.7 fails to build on FreeBSD

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Message #32 received at 51144 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe <at> nsu.ru>,
 Tijl Coosemans <tijl <at> freebsd.org>,
 Gnulib bugs <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>, Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>,
 51144 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51144: GNU grep 3.7 fails to build on FreeBSD
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 17:06:56 -0400

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 12:53 PM Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> On 10/16/21 9:40 AM, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> > Where
> > necessary we simply pass --build=x64_64-portbld-freebsd$(version).  An
> > example is gcc.
>
> Could you pass --build=x64_64-portbld-freebsd$(version) to every
> 'configure' invocation, not just gcc's and a few others?
>
> If I understand you correctly, doing that would have avoided this
> particular problem, and it would avoid other potential problems with
> gnulib/m4's float_h.m4, host-cpu-c-abi.m4, lib-prefix.m4, multiarch.m4,
> printf.m4, as well as in GNU projects other than Gnulib (I haven't tried
> to catalog them).

Related, that may affect Solaris, too. I believe Sun prefers the amd64 prefix.

And there's no telling what some of the other lesser known distros are doing.

Jeff

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