Official request: Please make GNU grep the default

Szilveszter Adam szilveszter.adam at gmail.com
Fri Aug 20 05:55:39 UTC 2010


On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:42:01PM +0000, b. f. wrote:
> Gabor:
> 
> One more thing to look into, in addition to the context problems,
> ndisgen breakage, and problems on certain file systems:
> 
> At r211506, 'grep -wq' does not seem to work properly (in the very
> least, it is not the same as with GNU grep), and has broken the
> 'check-categories' target (and hence builds) of all ports with 'lisp'
> in CATEGORIES.

Seconded. This also breaks the ports using bsd.apache.mk, and what's
worse, it does so silently. I have been bitten by this myself with
www/apache22, several core modules have not been built resulting in a
useless apache installation.

So, I believe there is more to do here than just performance
optimisation.

-- 
Regards:

Szilveszter ADAM
Budapest
Hungary


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