[evolution-patches] Re: About the grep -q issue on Solaris.

[Harish Krishnaswamy <kharish novell com>]

Yes. Both to HEAD and gnome-2-12, pl.

Thanks
harish
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 19:07 +0800, Mengjie Yu wrote:
> Harish,
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Should I commit the patch to the gnome-2-12 branch ?
> 
> Yours,
> Mengjie
> 
> On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:27 +0530, Harish Krishnaswamy wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:53 +0800, Mengjie Yu wrote:
> > > Dear harish,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > While building evolution trunk on Solaris 10, I found that the grep in configure.in script used with the -q option which is not supportted by Solaris grep.
> > > 
> > > Please see part of the result of grep(1) manual page.
> > >        -s, --no-messages
> > >               Suppress  error  messages  about  nonexistent  or unreadable files.  Portability note: unlike GNU grep, traditional grep did not conform to
> > >               POSIX.2, because traditional grep lacked a -q option and its -s option behaved like GNU grep's -q option.  Shell  scripts  intended  to  be
> > >               portable to traditional grep should avoid both -q and -s and should redirect output to /dev/null instead.
> > > 
> > > 
> > Right. Fine to commit.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Harish
> > 
>