maxima 5.26.0 Build Failure on FreeBSD



On 1/26/12, Thomas D. Dean <tomdean at speakeasy.org> wrote:

> pattern=`printf "\r$"` ;  bad_files=`find . -name '*.texi' -print |
> xargs /usr/bin/grep -E -l -e "$pattern"` ;  [ -z  "$bad_files" ] || (
> echo "WARNING: The following files have DOS-style EOLs: $bad_files" ;
> echo "Run /doc/info/fix_crlf to fix the problem." )
> *** Error code 1

I guess this means the shell interpreter didn't like that command.
Is grep not in /usr/bin? does it not take -E -l -e as arguments?
or the conditional expression is not recognized? Just guessing.

best

Robert Dodier