Closed Bug 673237 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

egrep failures in configure on OS X 10.7

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox Build System
Component:
General
Platform:
x86_64
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 655339

People

(Reporter: gps, Unassigned)

References

Details

gps and liuche upgraded our 10.6 MBP's to Lion and are now encountering failures with egrep in configure when writing confdefs.h. egrep fails with "Regular expression too big."

We had built nightly yesterday on 10.6 without issue. Interestingly, others have reported success building on Lion. Also, the version of grep between 10.6 and 10.7 did not change (GNU 2.5.1). And, running the `sort | egrep` manually in an existing bash shell seems to work.

I'm inclined to believe our build environments became busted after the upgrade. But, it would be nice to identify the root cause and resolution in case it impacts others.
Duplicate of Bug 655339. Workaround on comment #21
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Core → Firefox Build System
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