building binutils : gnu grep

[Juraj Lutter]

I used to patch configure and/or configure.ac and/or Makefile.in, et al.


On 04/09/15 16:22, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried building binutils 2.24 (current) on solaris 9 sparc and x86.
>
> Build completes. However I see this:
>
> mv -f .deps/eelf32lppclinux.Tpo .deps/eelf32lppclinux.Po
> LIB_PATH='' /bin/bash ./genscripts.sh "." "/opt/csw/lib" "/opt/csw"
> "/opt/csw" i386-pc-solaris2.9 i386-pc-solaris2.9 i386-pc-solaris2.9
> "elf_i386_sol2 elf_i386_ldso elf_i386 elf_x86_64_sol2 elf_x86_64
> elf_l1om elf_k1om" "/usr/local/lib /usr/ccs/lib /lib /usr/lib" no yes
> elf32lppcnto ""
> grep: illegal option -- q
> Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
> grep: illegal option -- q
> Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
> grep: illegal option -- q
> Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
> grep: illegal option -- q
> Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
> grep: illegal option -- q
> Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
> grep: illegal option -- q
> <..snip..>
>
> This makes me doubt of the quality of the final product.
>
> I suppose we need ggrep (gnu grep) here.
> In the receipe I see this commented line:
>
> # We need GNU grep
> #PATH := /opt/csw/gnu:$(PATH)
>
>
> Some other came to the same conclusion!
>
> I don't see a configure parameter, but what tricks could be ther? I
> thought of GREP=/opt/csw/bin/ggrep
>
> But where should I put that?
>
> Riccardo


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Juraj Lutter <wilbury at opencsw.org>