39258 – GREP_OPTIONS="--color=always" kills the portage system

Bug 39258 - GREP_OPTIONS="--color=always" kills the portage system

Summary: GREP_OPTIONS="--color=always" kills the portage system

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Keywords:	InVCS

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Reported:	2004-01-24 09:28 UTC by lison
Modified:	2004-02-08 17:55 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description lison 2004-01-24 09:28:54 UTC

I wanted to use the coloring feature in grep and added 
export GREP_OPTIONS="--color=always"
export GREP_COLOR="1;46;37"

in /etc/profile

that causes many ebuilds to fail since they rely on grep heavily

I suggest to unset GREP_OPTIONS from within /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.add to /etc/profile
export GREP_OPTIONS="--color=always"
export GREP_COLOR="1;46;37"

2. env-update && source /etc/profile

3. emerge libtool

Actual Results:  
ebuild fails

Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-24 20:06:14 UTC

unset in CVS.
2.0.50_pre21

Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-08 17:55:11 UTC

supposed to be fixed in 2.0.50 which is stable now. If this bug is not fixed please reopen.