Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] user-definable tail and grep

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Sunday 18 September 2005 17:35, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> > In principle the patches look okay to me. We don't need to test for
> > grep ``-v'' though I think: AFAIK it's a pretty standard flag. Not
> > sure about ``-E'' and ``-q'': they are defined POSIX -- where don't
> > they exist?
>
> All grep binaries I've seen support both -v and -q. I thought we could
> still test them as it doesn't cost us much, but I can drop these tests
> if you think they are needless.

I'd rather not add totally useless tests. The will just bitrot and break.

> Solaris' /usr/bin/grep doesn't support -E, so I really want this test in
> quilt's configure.

It's easy to not use ``grep -E'' at all. There were only a few instances, so 
we don't need this test anymore.

Thanks,
Andreas.