ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.2 Release Candidate 1

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Thu Mar 19 13:14:54 EDT 2009


On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 04:00:09PM +0100, Christian Maeder wrote:
> 
> Under Solaris grep does not understand "-q" in configure:
> 
> checkMake380() {
>     if $1 --version 2>&1 | head -1 | grep -q 'GNU Make 3\.80'
> 
> it fails with:
> 
> grep: illegal option -- q
> Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
> grep: illegal option -- q
> Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .

OK, I'll just redirect stdout to /dev/null then.

Presumably these print 0 and 1 respectively?

echo foo | grep foo > /dev/null; echo $?
echo foo | grep bar > /dev/null; echo $?


Thanks
Ian



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