egrep in binutils

Sam James sam@gentoo.org
Wed Sep 28 20:25:14 GMT 2022



> On 28 Sep 2022, at 05:34, Alan Modra via Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org> wrote:
> 
> Apparently some distros have a nagging egrep that helpfully tells you
> egrep is deprecated and to use "grep -E".  The nag message causes a ld
> testsuite failure.  What's more the advice isn't that good.  The "-E"

You should direct your complaints to the GNU grep maintainers,
as they added this with grep 3.8.
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