Re: [PATCH/RFC] SunOS grep does not understand -C<n>

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:30:07PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I noticed that the first "grep -C1" test in t7002 does not pass on my 
SunOS-5.11-i86pc, and that is not because our way to spawn external
grep is broken, but because the native grep does not understand -C<n>.

Is it just me and my installation (i.e. I might have failed to install
saner grep from the distribution that everybody uses), or everybody on
SunOS is using this option himself because our Makefile doesn't do that
automatically for them?

Just in case it is the latter, here is a proposed patch.

Yes, I've been building with NO_EXTERNAL_GREP for my test box. The grep
from Solaris 8, at least, doesn't understand '-e' either, which causes
it to fail many other tests.

-Peff