Details on this package are located in Section 6.39.2, “Contents of Grep.”
The Grep package contains programs for searching through files.
Prepare Grep for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/tools \
--disable-perl-regexp \
--without-included-regex
The meaning of the configure switches:
--disable-perl-regexp
This ensures that the grep program does not get linked against a Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library that may be present on the host but will not be available once we enter the chroot environment.
--without-included-regex
The configure check for glibc's regex library is broken when building against glibc-2.8. This switch forces the use of glibc's regex library.
Compile the package:
make
Compilation is now complete. As discussed earlier, running the test suite is not mandatory for the temporary tools here in this chapter. To run the Grep test suite anyway, issue the following command:
make check
Install the package:
make install
Details on this package are located in Section 6.39.2, “Contents of Grep.”