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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2022-09-11 00:10:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2022-09-11 11:18:38 +0200 |
| commit | ae4d1437f1653b2d2529bf1f77672ce708025cf6 (patch) | |
| tree | 30071dffe946ed904041af36595e801e9c9f4d0a /configure.ac | |
| parent | b62d236f7d267e5af9d8a7551d16876733fe2238 (diff) | |
| download | curl-ae4d1437f1653b2d2529bf1f77672ce708025cf6.tar.gz | |
configure: correct the wording when checking grep -E
The check first checks that grep -E works, and only as a fallback tries
to find and use egrep. egrep is deprecated.
This change only corrects the output wording, not the checks themselves.
Closes #9471
Diffstat (limited to 'configure.ac')
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 17c0a7cdc..5cda91652 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -85,21 +85,22 @@ if test -z "$GREP"; then fi AC_SUBST([GREP]) -dnl EGREP is mandatory for configure process and libtool. +dnl 'grep -E' is mandatory for configure process and libtool. dnl Set it now, allowing it to be changed later. if test -z "$EGREP"; then dnl allow it to be overridden + AC_MSG_CHECKING([that grep -E works]) if echo a | ($GREP -E '(a|b)') >/dev/null 2>&1; then - AC_MSG_CHECKING([for egrep]) EGREP="$GREP -E" - AC_MSG_RESULT([$EGREP]) + AC_MSG_RESULT([yes]) else + AC_MSG_RESULT([no]) AC_PATH_PROG([EGREP], [egrep], [not_found], [$PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin]) fi fi if test -z "$EGREP" || test "$EGREP" = "not_found"; then - AC_MSG_ERROR([egrep not found in PATH. Cannot continue without egrep.]) + AC_MSG_ERROR([grep -E is not working and is egrep not found in PATH. Cannot continue.]) fi AC_SUBST([EGREP]) |