[sr #110657] Autoconf configure script considers absence of usable grep a fatal error, although it only uses egrep thereafter

Alain Knaff <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Follow-up Comment #11, sr #110657 (project autoconf):


[comment #10 comment #10:]
> This patch works great, thanks :-)
> 

Sorry, I misspoke. The patch actually fails to set the variable
EGREP_TRADITIONAL (it only sets ac_cv_path_EGREP_TRADITIONAL), so all egrep
checks later fail, just as if the search expression was not found.

As attached, it works.

(file #53286)

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