Add explicit check for EGREP in configure.ac

It is used in lib/Makefile.am and we were relying some autoconf macros
to define it as a side-effect. This is not the case anymore as of
autoconf 2.72.

(cherry picked from commit 31cde7247638a50c2302744984732064505b7d85)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d05e633a78468dd3b7d9d4d4e73f045bfd144460..fc6a3f631926e9088fa0941487e619e369b44e6d 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ AC_SUBST([HAVE_WCHAR_T])
 # Needed for Mingw-w64
 AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT
 
+# egrep is used in lib/Makefile.am
+AC_PROG_EGREP
+
 ### We need iconv for unicode support (Qt frontend requires it too)
 LYX_USE_INCLUDED_ICONV
 

diff --git a/status.24x b/status.24x
index 538c881b43ded8314929b131b61507906cd10b8a..6414a40abb949f614ab34d8711e281c42c0c6b1d 100644 (file)
--- a/status.24x
+++ b/status.24x
@@ -86,4 +86,4 @@ What's new
 
 * BUILD/INSTALLATION
 
-
+- Fix 'make install' target for autotools builds with autoconf >= 2.72.