Re: grep 2.5: make install does not honor prefix or suffix for eg rep/ fgrep

[Newton, Philip]

Stepan Kasal wrote:
> grep-2.5.1 implements fgrep and egrep as wrapper scripts, not links.
> The reason is that situations where a binary changes its 
> behaviour according to it's name is deprecated by POSIX.

And also by GNU coding standards, as Alfred M. Szmidt pointed out to me (
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_16.html ).

> With grep 2.5.1 and the scripts, you'd be safe.
> But grep-2.5.1 contains another bug: the created sripts are 
> installed under
> the names gnu-egrep, gnu-fgrep, but call grep, not gnu-grep.
> I'll fix it ASAP.  For now, please fix it manually.
> 
> (Or you can only take the scripts, they contain just this:
>       #!/bin/sh
>       exec grep -E ${1+"$@"}

Ah, cool. Maybe I'll just do that. I don't really want to fetch another
release.

Cheers,
Philip
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