Installing Grep-2.5.1

Estimated build time:           0.1 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  5.8 MB

Contents of Grep

(Last checked against version 2.5.1.)

Grep is a program used to print lines from a file matching a specified pattern.

Installed programs: egrep (link to grep), fgrep (link to grep) and grep

Grep Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 2.4.2.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld
Coreutils: basename, cat, chmod, echo, expr, hostname, install,
             ls, mkdir, mv, rm, sleep, tr, uname
Diffutils: cmp
Gawk: gawk
GCC: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp, gcc
Gettext: msgfmt, xgettext
Glibc: getconf
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
M4: m4
Make: make
Sed: sed
Texinfo: install-info, makeinfo

Installation of Grep

Prepare Grep to be compiled:

./configure --prefix=/tools \
    --disable-perl-regexp --with-included-regex

The meaning of the configure options:

Compile the programs:

make 

This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the following command will do so:

make check

Then install them and their documentation:

make install