Re: [Swig-devel] Installing SWIG on Nokia N800 [grep problem]

[Olly B. <ol...@su...>]

On 2008-05-23, Daniele Romagnoli <dan...@ge...> wrote:
> we are trying to install SWIG on Nokia N800.
> When running configure, it give some error messages saying that grep/egrep
> can't handle long lines.
> The message is "checking for grep that handles long lines and -e...
> configure: error: no acceptable grep could be found in
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sb
> in:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/xpg4/bin"
> Afterwards, a similar message appears related to egrep.
>
> Had someone already encountered a similar problem?

This isn't SWIG-specific - autoconf generated configure scripts assume
that the list of tools specified by the GNU coding standards are
available, which includes "diff".  But Nokia don't install diff by
default (NB - although the error is for grep it is actually diff that is
the missing):

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/5961/focus=5962

> Can someone give me some tips/helps?

Installing diff is the easiest fix.

Cheers,
    Olly