[MPlayer-users] Re: Configure bug

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 08:37:59PM +0100, Christian wrote:
> Alright. I guess the default behavior modification of grep did affect other 
> unrelated areas as well, since I get lots of weird errors even when compiling 
> with --disable-big-endian.
> 
> All the problems disappear when I do an "unset GREP_OPTIONS" 
> before ./configure... So this may be the ultimate solution.
> 
> Btw I'm not sure this grep environment variable is such a good thing. It does 

yes it's definitely a very bad thing. if you really want these options
for the command line, you should use a shell alias so it doesn't
propagate into scripts and such.

rich