Re: What is AC_PROG_EGREP?

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Thom May wrote:

> > > dnl AC_PROG_EGREP is only available in autoconf 2.53b and later
> > > ifdef([AC_PROG_EGREP],[AC_PROG_EGREP],[])
> > >
> > > I don't have time to test it myself, but if it works, feel free to
> > > commit.
> >
> > OK, this patch works for me. It's not urgent so I won't commit it
> > until someone verifies that it works on 2.54 as well.

> presumably then $EGREP isn't defined? Or (sorry, don't have a copy of
> subversion sources at hand atm) are we checking that before we try to use
> it?

Judging from the changelog snippets posted before, $EGREP wasn't used at all
until it was introduced and in the same release it was introduced, that
AC_PROG_EGREP was added.

So, if the macro doesn't exist, $EGREP is not used.

That's at least my interpretation.

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