make help uses grep feature which isn't present on OpenBSD grep #5

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paper · 2020-09-05T16:19:25Z

paper commented

2020-09-05 16:19:25 +00:00

% make help
targets:
grep: repetition-operator operand invalid

Using ggrep works as expected, so the solution could be to detect if we are on a (Open?)BSD system and use ggrep instead. Or the grep command could be changed to be more portable.

``` % make help targets: grep: repetition-operator operand invalid ``` Using `ggrep` works as expected, so the solution could be to detect if we are on a (Open?)BSD system and use `ggrep` instead. Or the grep command could be changed to be more portable.

tomasino commented

2020-09-05 18:08:58 +00:00

I just pushed an update to the Makefile that replaces grep with awk. It works for me in testing on tilde.institute, which is on openbsd. Can you verify this fixes the issue for you as well?

paper commented

2020-09-05 18:31:17 +00:00

I discovered it on tilde.institute :) so yes, it works now. Thanks a lot.

paper closed this issue

2020-09-05 18:31:28 +00:00

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Reference: tomasino/pb#5