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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: bloated GNU [ef]grep binaries (current/2.4 and beta/2.5.1)
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> Why is GNU grep (either current/2.4 or beta/2.5.1) not using "ln -s"
> for fgrep, egrep binaries? Wouldn't that be smaller? I've seen
> several references to that being a good idea, but in practice it
> seems to not be used. Any particular reason?  :-/

Most likely, it's because djgpp's ln -s is either (1) limited to
executables in the same directory, or (2) newer than the grep's
configury.