From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 12 05:49:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA00700 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 05:49:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from veda.is (root@ubiq.veda.is [193.4.230.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA00695 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 05:49:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from adam@localhost) by veda.is (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA00624 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 13:49:32 GMT Message-Id: <199602121349.NAA00624@veda.is> Subject: LIB_DEPENDS To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 13:49:31 +0000 (GMT) From: "Adam David" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk LIB_DEPENDS currently requires "\\." instead of the simpler "." because in the lib_depends: target, the string is passed to grep and the "." therefore needs to be escaped. This produces bogus output such as the following: ===> ssh-1.2.12.92 depends on shared library: z\.0\. - not found ===> Verifying build for z\.0\. in /usr/ports/devel/libz Since there is no need to handle regular expressions for the purpose intended here, would it not make better sense to use fgrep instead of grep and do away with this extra complication and bogosity? -- Adam David