[FFmpeg-devel] Fixing configure on Solaris

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 09:08:37AM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Roman Shaposhnick <rvs at sun.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 00:51 +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 02:08:56PM -0700, Roman Shaposhnick wrote:
> >> > As per grep(1) man page:
> >> > 
> >> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> > 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.
> >> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> > 
> >> > Ok to apply?
> >
> >   Oh, don't get me wrong -- its not like it is broken on Solaris or 
> > anything. A fully POSIX compliant grep is available from /usr/xpg4/bin.
> > This was more a question of default behavior I guess. 
> 
> Then the question is, why are the proper tools hidden away in
> /usr/xpg4/bin with the broken ones still in /bin?

Yes, why does Solaris still have broken defaults like this?  It's not
like they haven't had more than a decade to fix this.

Roman, please grab the largest cluebat you find lying around and start
smacking the people in the cubicles around you.

Diego