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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: grep: RE error in ^*** ADVICE-ON-FAILURE-: repetition-operator operand invalid
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 11:24:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <518ded72c3aa09fcd1c1@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fsef9pms.fsf@yahoo.com>


>
> This is what happens when building Emacs on Suns:
>
> grep: RE error in ^*** ADVICE-ON-FAILURE-: repetition-operator operand 
> invalid
>

That seems like a problem with Sun grep, isn't it?  What does it expect? 
Can you try

echo '*** foo' | grep -v '^\*\*\* foo'

and tell us if it works (i.e. if it does not show any output)?



  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-19 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87fsef9pms.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2022-11-19 10:59 ` grep: RE error in ^*** ADVICE-ON-FAILURE-: repetition-operator operand invalid Po Lu
2022-11-19 11:24   ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2022-11-19 11:35     ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-11-19 11:49       ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-19 12:05         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-19 11:57     ` Po Lu
2022-11-19 12:00       ` Po Lu
2022-11-19 12:14         ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-11-19 12:26           ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-19 12:42             ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-11-19 12:49               ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-19 11:45   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-19 14:06   ` Gregory Heytings

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