grep -w not available or config issue on my part?

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Sunday 25 April 2010 20:49, Christopher Barry wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 18:42 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Friday 23 April 2010 21:15, Christopher Barry wrote:
> > > Hi everyone.
> > > 
> > > I've upgraded to v1.16.1, and grep appears to no longer have the '-w'
> > > option. I have every option in the menuconfig checked in the 'finding
> > > utilities' section, not sure what I'm doing wrong. Below are the outputs
> > > of grep --help in both versions.
> > > 
> > > Anyone have any ideas about what I may not be configuring correctly?
> > 
> > You (perhaps accidentally) switched off DESKTOP option.
> > 
> 
> DESKTOP option adds extra functionality to grep?? Wow. Is that really on
> purpose? I'm not building BB for a desktop scenario, so I definitely
> switched that off - in fact I never even looked in there, as I just
> assumed, as it's name certainly implies, that it was a bunch of extra,
> unneeded, desktopy fluff. 

What is needed and what is not needed will vary depending on user.

> Curious, why are additional grep parameters hidden in a completely
> unrelated option group? Seems like 'Finding Utilities' was already
> available (and indeed has the other grep options), and would be the
> logical location for that kind of thing. Is having grep isolate on word
> boundaries, a core functionality of grep I would argue, related to a
> DESKTOP in some way that I'm simply not grokking?

Easy: just send a patch which make it possible to select this option
with dedicated CONFIG_FEATURE_GREP_FOO.

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