Installing eclim on osx 10.8.5 fails - no acceptable grep found

Question

Im trying to install eclim on OSX 10.8.5 and the installer fails because it does not like the grep I have installed.

[ANT][exec]configure: error: no acceptable grep could be found

[ANT][exec] checking for grep that handles long lines and -e...

My grep has -e

SYNOPSIS
   grep [OPTIONS] PATTERN [FILE...]
   grep [OPTIONS] [-e PATTERN | -f FILE] [FILE...]

What is going on here?

Answer 1

I ended up fixing this by using macports to install gcc grep. Apparently OSX now uses bsd grep by default and there are differences between the two that gcc was choking on. The part of this that a little ridiculous is that I installed gcc through XCode.