grep and ctags

[Roland Krause]

>    8. Re: grep and ctags (Simon Hausmann)
> Subject: Re: grep and ctags

> I think testing for grep at build time is not a good idea. After all
> it's a pure run-time dependency. Better fix your PATH :)

My PATH isn't broken, so why fix it? Seriously, this is not even a
possiblity since lots of shell scripts usually rely on the behaviour of
/usr/bin coming before /usr/xpg4/bin. I've once tried to "fix my path"
and all hell broke loose... 

> (like if you only want xpg4's grep without xpg4/bin before /usr/bin
> symlink that grep in ~/bin and move that to the front of your PATH?)

No, that doesn't work either if I want more than one person to be able
to use the software. I guess we can always detect whether and which
grep we use during startup/setup and ultimatively make it all
configurable. This makes most sense, since then I could even give my
binaries to other "sufferers from Solaris". 

Roland

> 
> 
> Simon
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