Re: Automake patch to not assume egrep or fgrep

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

 Paul> I thought that this "distdir" action is only used by package
 Paul> maintainers as well, as it uses other syntax like "cp -pR" and "chmod
 Paul> a+r" that is not portable to arbitrarily ancient hosts.  Hmm, but I
 Paul> suppose those actions do work on Solaris 8, whereas "grep -E" doesn't,
 Paul> so maybe this is worth fixing.

`distdir' is a dependency of `dist' which is a user target (per
GNU Standards), so the more portable it is the better.

 >> What about escaping $(VERSION) using sed before passing it to grep?

 Paul> Why not use shell pattern matching?  It's simpler.  Something like
 Paul> this, perhaps?

Yes, this seems good.
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz