[Dovecot] BUG: Bad grep when building dovecot?

[Bill Cole]

At 4:19 PM -0700 5/11/08, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
>Is dovecot *really* that picky about grep, or did it just happen to 
>pick up an autoconf that's being overly pedantic?

XPG4 says grep needs to take '-e PATTERN' and a normal installation 
of Solaris has a standard grep in /usr/xpg4/bin that should do the 
trick.

You will have nothing but pain if you try to build cross-platform 
software on Solaris without the packages that populate /usr/xpg4.

>I saw this message a couple of times when googling, but no 
>particularly good solution presents itself.  I'll probably give it a 
>new GNU grep just to get it to shut up, but I'm a bit surprised.

Don't be. Solaris has had its own set of SysV-lineage utilities in 
/usr/bin and standard versions as needed under /usr/xpg4.



>I tried to compile dovecot in an OpenSolaris 2008.5 system in a zone 
>(which is quite a bit more minimal than base OpenSolaris).
>
>bash-3.2# uname -a
>SunOS postfix-s0 5.11 snv_86 i86pc i386 i86pc
>
>bash-3.2# ./configure --help
>`configure' configures dovecot 1.0.12 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
>
>bash-3.2# which grep
>/usr/bin/grep
>bash-3.2# grep -v
>Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
>bash-3.2# which egrep
>/usr/bin/egrep
>
>Error in configure:
>checking for cc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
>checking dependency style of cc... (cached) none
>checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
>checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... configure: 
>error: no acceptable grep could be found in 
>/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin
>
>Thanks,
>-a


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Bill Cole                                  
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