Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo]

On 2008-06-17, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
egrep: empty (sub)expression

I've looked at this and I have a patch with a workaround:
http://kovesdan.org/patches/grep.dougb.diff

This general behavior should be considered a GNUism, the type of thing that we want to avoid in scripts. Perhaps, if it's too common, the workaround should be ifdef'd into a GNU compatible mode or something.

Pedro.


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