Installing Grep-2.4.2

Estimated build time:           1 minute
Estimated required disk space:  4 MB

Installation of Grep

Install Grep by running the following commands:

export CPPFLAGS=-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2 &&
./configure --prefix=$LFS/usr --disable-nls &&
unset CPPFLAGS &&
make LDFLAGS=-static &&
make install

Contents

The grep package contains the egrep, fgrep and grep programs.

Description

egrep

egrep prints lines from files matching an extended regular expression pattern.

fgrep

fgrep prints lines from files matching a list of fixed strings, separated by newlines, any of which is to be matched.

grep

grep prints lines from files matching a basic regular expression pattern.

Dependencies

Grep-2.4.2 needs the following to be installed:


sh from the bash package

ar from the binutils package
as from the binutils package
ld from the binutils package

cmp from the diffutils package

chmod from the fileutils package
cp from the fileutils package
ln from the fileutils package
ls from the fileutils package
mkdir from the fileutils package
rm from the fileutils package

cc from the gcc package

egrep from the grep package
grep from the grep package

make from the make package

sed from the sed package

basename from the sh-utils package
expr from the sh-utils package
sleep from the sh-utils package
uname from the sh-utils package

cat from the textutils package
tr from the textutils package