UPDATE: grep problem

[Phil Edwards]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 07:24:44AM -0600, Terry L Moore wrote:
> My apologies to this list.  I had upgraded my version of make when I installed 
> gcc on my own machine.  I completely forgot about that when I went to do another 
> host.  Quite embarassing!
>     I built and installed GNU make 3.80 on the target host.  I then ran that 
> copy of make with a -d argument and the bootstrap target.  I let it run 
> overnight and when I come in this morning, it has finished successfully.
>     I want to thank you all for the effort and time you spent in my behalf and 
> hope you'll forgive my folly.

Folly forgiven, my son.  We've all been there.  As penance, consider
a patch to the toplevel Makefile which checks for the version of make,
to help those who come after you from the same stumbling block.

<insert "holy postel" ahbou prayer here>


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