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

Christopher Barry christopher.barry at rackwareinc.com
Mon Apr 26 04:59:34 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 21:09 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> 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.
> 
Patch attached.

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