Official request: Please make GNU grep the default

[b. f.]

On 8/20/10, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:
> "b. f." <bf1783 at googlemail.com> writes:
>> At r211506, 'grep -wq' does not seem to work properly (in the very
>> least, it is not the same as with GNU grep),
>
> "Does not seem to work properly" is not a very useful statement.  The
> least you could do is provide an example.

I did provide an example, later in the same sentence that you quoted.
Using a current ports tree, go to a port with 'lisp' in CATEGORIES,
and run any ports target that requires 'check-categories', e.g.:

make -C /usr/ports/math/maxima check-categories
maxima-5.22.1: Makefile error: category lisp not in list of valid categories.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /mnt/disk2/usr/ports/math/maxima.

>From bsd.port.mk:

   2941 VALID_CATEGORIES+= accessibility afterstep arabic archivers
astro audio \
   2942         benchmarks biology cad chinese comms converters databases \
   2943         deskutils devel docs dns editors elisp emulators
finance french ftp \
   2944         games geography german gnome gnustep graphics hamradio
haskell hebrew hungarian \
   2945         ipv6 irc japanese java kde kld korean lang linux lisp \
   2946         mail math mbone misc multimedia net net-im net-mgmt
net-p2p news \
   2947         palm parallel pear perl5 plan9 polish portuguese ports-mgmt \
   2948         print python ruby rubygems russian \
   2949         scheme science security shells spanish sysutils \
   2950         tcl textproc tk \
   2951         ukrainian vietnamese windowmaker www \
   2952         x11 x11-clocks x11-drivers x11-fm x11-fonts
x11-servers x11-themes \
   2953         x11-toolkits x11-wm xfce zope
   2954
   2955 check-categories:
   2956 .for cat in ${CATEGORIES}
   2957         @if ${ECHO_CMD} ${VALID_CATEGORIES} | ${GREP} -wq ${cat}; then \
   2958                 ${TRUE}; \
   2959         else \
   2960                 ${ECHO_MSG} "${PKGNAME}: Makefile error:
category ${cat} not in list of valid categories.   2960 "; \
   2961                 ${FALSE}; \
   2962         fi
   2963 .endfor

A closer look at VALID_CATEGORIES, using vis -oltw:

VALID_CATEGORIES+=\040accessibility\040afterstep\040arabic\040archivers\040astro\040audio\040\\\$
\011benchmarks\040biology\040cad\040chinese\040comms\040converters\040databases\040\\\$
\011deskutils\040devel\040docs\040dns\040editors\040elisp\040emulators\040finance\040french\040ftp\040\\\$
\011games\040geography\040german\040gnome\040gnustep\040graphics\040hamradio\040haskell\040hebrew\040hungarian\040\\\$
\011ipv6\040irc\040japanese\040java\040kde\040kld\040korean\040lang\040linux\040lisp\040\\\$
\011mail\040math\040mbone\040misc\040multimedia\040net\040net-im\040net-mgmt\040net-p2p\040news\040\\\$
\011palm\040parallel\040pear\040perl5\040plan9\040polish\040portuguese\040ports-mgmt\040\\\$
\011print\040python\040ruby\040rubygems\040russian\040\\\$
\011scheme\040science\040security\040shells\040spanish\040sysutils\040\\\$
\011tcl\040textproc\040tk\040\\\$
\011ukrainian\040vietnamese\040windowmaker\040www\040\\\$
\011x11\040x11-clocks\040x11-drivers\040x11-fm\040x11-fonts\040x11-servers\040x11-themes\040\\\$
\011x11-toolkits\040x11-wm\040xfce\040zope\$

The lisp category is the only category that causes a problem with the
new bsdgrep, and I didn't take the time to analyze why ( which is why
I was not more specific in my original message). 'lisp' is preceded by
'elisp', which would normally be a match for the 'lisp' in a port
Makefile, were it not for the -w flag.  'x11' succeeds, but it
precedes all of the x11-* categories.  I suspect that there is an
error in the logic of either the -w or the -q flag implementation in
bsdgrep, which causes problems when the two options are used together.
The target succeeds as expected with GNU grep.

b.