Re: grep-2.27-1 fails when >/dev/null 2>&1

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 09:39:59PM +0100, Lars Bro wrote:
> Hi list,

Hi Lars,

> I am using Debian Stretch, obtained with debootstrap (as of Jan 02 2017).
> Linux kernel of the host is 4.4.6, and the following is run in a chroot.
> File system is ext4.
> 
> When I try to run "./configure" of one of the applications I use, it fails,
> claiming that gmake is not present.
> 
> When looking into the "configure script" I find this construct:
> 
> /bin/sh -c 'make --version | grep GNU' >/dev/null 2>&1
> 
> And when I test it, I see this:
> 
> root@mini:/# /bin/sh -c 'make --version | grep GNU' >/dev/null 2>&1
> root@mini:/# echo $?
> 2
> root@mini:/# /bin/sh -c 'make --version | grep GNU' >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
> root@mini:/# echo $?
> 0
> root@mini:/#
>...

thanks for your report, can you submit it as a bug report against the 
grep package?

Upstream bug report and patch for this issue are at
  https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=25283

> yours,
> 
> Lars Bro

Thanks
Adrian

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