[FFmpeg-devel] Fixing configure on Solaris

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 02:08:56PM -0700, Roman Shaposhnick wrote:
> As per grep(1) man page:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Portability note: unlike GNU grep, traditional grep did not conform to
> POSIX.2, because traditional grep lacked a -q option  and  its  -s
> option  behaved  like GNU grep's -q option.  Shell scripts intended to
> be portable to traditional grep should avoid both -q and -s and should
> redirect output to /dev/null instead.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Ok to apply?

I don't like it.  -q is part of POSIX[1].  Why don't you fix the stone age
tools in Solaris?

Diego

[1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/grep.html