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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: grep-2.5.4-2


On 2009-11-25, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I've made a new version of 'grep' (http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/)
> available for installation.  This is the most recent version of grep
> available from ftp.gnu.org + a patch from the Mandrake project which
> seems to alleviate the problem mentioned here:
> 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/threads.html#00779
> 
> i.e., "grep -i --color" doesn't always work.

Thank you!  I installed the Cygwin src package, copied the directory
to my Linux machine, ran ./configure, make, and make install there
and voilà:  grep with working color!

Regards,
Gary



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