[PATCH 01 of 10] tests: use grep -E instead of obsolescent egrep
Joerg Sonnenberger
joerg at bec.de
Wed Jun 28 11:50:20 UTC 2023
On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 02:06:46AM +0200, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com>
> # Date 1687782898 -7200
> # Mon Jun 26 14:34:58 2023 +0200
> # Branch stable
> # Node ID 2790b07cd5da2be40fd5299ae114a49eb6196e55
> # Parent 42f761e97decbd95b5c3171ba83701828d60db24
> tests: use grep -E instead of obsolescent egrep
>
> Testing on Fedora 38 failed with:
> egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
>
> The warning comes from
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=a9515624709865d480e3142fd959bccd1c9372d1
> . For further anecdotal evidence of the change, see
> https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Grep-3.8-Stop-egrep-fgrep .
I'm mildly objecting to this change and would call on everyone to fill a
bug with GNU and any Linux distribution that keeps this idiocity...
Joerg
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