egrep is not egrep.

[reddragdiva]

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Today, I discovered that Solaris 10 egrep is not quite the same as GNU egrep, and that this is important when developers assume all the world's a GNU.

When you run ./configure for sqlite, it tells you "checking for egrep... egrep", but make craps out with:

libtool: link: ranlib .libs/libsqlite3.a
egrep: syntax error
egrep: syntax error
libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "libsqlite3.la" && ln -s "../libsqlite3.la" "libsqlite3.la" )
./libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -DOS_UNIX=1 -I. -I./src -D_HAVE_SQLITE_CONFIG_H -DNDEBUG -DSQLITE_THREADSAFE=1 -DSQLITE_THREAD_OVERRIDE_LOCK=-1 -DSQLITE_OMIT_LOAD_EXTENSION=1   -DHAVE_READLINE=1 -I/usr/local/include/readline \
        -o sqlite3 ./src/shell.c libsqlite3.la \
        -lcurses -lrt -rpath "/home/iplayrad/sqlite/lib"
libtool: link: gcc -g -O2 -DOS_UNIX=1 -I. -I./src -D_HAVE_SQLITE_CONFIG_H -DNDEBUG -DSQLITE_THREADSAFE=1 -DSQLITE_THREAD_OVERRIDE_LOCK=-1 -DSQLITE_OMIT_LOAD_EXTENSION=1 -DHAVE_READLINE=1 -I/usr/local/include/readline -o .libs/sqlite3 ./src/shell.c  ./.libs/libsqlite3.so -lcurses -lrt -R/home/iplayrad/sqlite/lib
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
write_history                       /var/tmp//ccXy2ReD.o
stifle_history                      /var/tmp//ccXy2ReD.o
read_history                        /var/tmp//ccXy2ReD.o                            /var/tmp//ccXy2ReD.o
add_history                         /var/tmp//ccXy2ReD.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to .libs/sqlite3
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `sqlite3'

You get around this by running ./configure, then editing libtool to change EGREP="egrep" to EGREP="/usr/sfw/bin/gegrep", then running make. Owww.

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Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

Solaris really is a fucking pain.

Honestly, in this day and age...

OK, this problem is not solaris fault but presumably the person writing Makefile.am should have been a little more careful in their checks. (I sympathise with them because automake etc is a damned mystery -- I wrestle with it regularly now and break something every time).

[reddragdiva]

Solaris' job is to be a piece of industrial machinery that works, keeps on working and will run binaries going back twenty years. Fortunately they now understand that their competition is Linux and the entire free software stack has to Just Work. Hopefully the sqlite developer (singular) can do something with the bug report.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Solaris' job is to be a piece of industrial machinery that works, keeps on working

I've little sympathy with any OS where patching is actually significant pain and effort.

I can see your point but my experience with Solaris is inevitably bad -- the kit is pricey and it's just damned hard to keep it going.