diff --git a/nbase/configure b/nbase/configure
index b76dd8efa..85d23e9a3 100755
--- a/nbase/configure
+++ b/nbase/configure
@@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ test -x / || exit 1"
   as_suggested="  as_lineno_1=";as_suggested=$as_suggested$LINENO;as_suggested=$as_suggested" as_lineno_1a=\$LINENO
   as_lineno_2=";as_suggested=$as_suggested$LINENO;as_suggested=$as_suggested" as_lineno_2a=\$LINENO
   eval 'test \"x\$as_lineno_1'\$as_run'\" != \"x\$as_lineno_2'\$as_run'\" &&
-  test \"x\`expr \$as_lineno_1'\$as_run' + 1\`\" = \"x\$as_lineno_2'\$as_run'\"' || exit 1
-test \$(( 1 + 1 )) = 2 || exit 1"
+  test \"x\`expr \$as_lineno_1'\$as_run' + 1\`\" = \"x\$as_lineno_2'\$as_run'\"' || exit 1"
   if (eval "$as_required") 2>/dev/null
 then :
   as_have_required=yes
@@ -648,8 +647,6 @@ ac_includes_default="\
 ac_header_c_list=
 ac_subst_vars='LTLIBOBJS
 LIBOBJS
-EGREP
-GREP
 host_os
 host_vendor
 host_cpu
@@ -3869,152 +3866,6 @@ then :
 printf "%s\n" "#define STDC_HEADERS 1" >>confdefs.h
 
 fi
-{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for grep that handles long lines and -e" >&5
-printf %s "checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... " >&6; }
-if test ${ac_cv_path_GREP+y}
-then :
-  printf %s "(cached) " >&6
-else $as_nop
-  if test -z "$GREP"; then
-  ac_path_GREP_found=false
-  # Loop through the user's path and test for each of PROGNAME-LIST
-  as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
-for as_dir in $PATH$PATH_SEPARATOR/usr/xpg4/bin
-do
-  IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  case $as_dir in #(((
-    '') as_dir=./ ;;
-    */) ;;
-    *) as_dir=$as_dir/ ;;
-  esac
-    for ac_prog in grep ggrep
-   do
-    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
-      ac_path_GREP="$as_dir$ac_prog$ac_exec_ext"
-      as_fn_executable_p "$ac_path_GREP" || continue
-# Check for GNU ac_path_GREP and select it if it is found.
-  # Check for GNU $ac_path_GREP
-case `"$ac_path_GREP" --version 2>&1` in
-*GNU*)
-  ac_cv_path_GREP="$ac_path_GREP" ac_path_GREP_found=:;;
-*)
-  ac_count=0
-  printf %s 0123456789 >"conftest.in"
-  while :
-  do
-    cat "conftest.in" "conftest.in" >"conftest.tmp"
-    mv "conftest.tmp" "conftest.in"
-    cp "conftest.in" "conftest.nl"
-    printf "%s\n" 'GREP' >> "conftest.nl"
-    "$ac_path_GREP" -e 'GREP$' -e '-(cannot match)-' < "conftest.nl" >"conftest.out" 2>/dev/null || break
-    diff "conftest.out" "conftest.nl" >/dev/null 2>&1 || break
-    as_fn_arith $ac_count + 1 && ac_count=$as_val
-    if test $ac_count -gt ${ac_path_GREP_max-0}; then
-      # Best one so far, save it but keep looking for a better one
-      ac_cv_path_GREP="$ac_path_GREP"
-      ac_path_GREP_max=$ac_count
-    fi
-    # 10*(2^10) chars as input seems more than enough
-    test $ac_count -gt 10 && break
-  done
-  rm -f conftest.in conftest.tmp conftest.nl conftest.out;;
-esac
-
-      $ac_path_GREP_found && break 3
-    done
-  done
-  done
-IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  if test -z "$ac_cv_path_GREP"; then
-    as_fn_error $? "no acceptable grep could be found in $PATH$PATH_SEPARATOR/usr/xpg4/bin" "$LINENO" 5
-  fi
-else
-  ac_cv_path_GREP=$GREP
-fi
-
-fi
-{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ac_cv_path_GREP" >&5
-printf "%s\n" "$ac_cv_path_GREP" >&6; }
- GREP="$ac_cv_path_GREP"
-
-
-# Autoupdate added the next two lines to ensure that your configure
-# script's behavior did not change.  They are probably safe to remove.
-
-{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for egrep" >&5
-printf %s "checking for egrep... " >&6; }
-if test ${ac_cv_path_EGREP+y}
-then :
-  printf %s "(cached) " >&6
-else $as_nop
-  if echo a | $GREP -E '(a|b)' >/dev/null 2>&1
-   then ac_cv_path_EGREP="$GREP -E"
-   else
-     if test -z "$EGREP"; then
-  ac_path_EGREP_found=false
-  # Loop through the user's path and test for each of PROGNAME-LIST
-  as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
-for as_dir in $PATH$PATH_SEPARATOR/usr/xpg4/bin
-do
-  IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  case $as_dir in #(((
-    '') as_dir=./ ;;
-    */) ;;
-    *) as_dir=$as_dir/ ;;
-  esac
-    for ac_prog in egrep
-   do
-    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
-      ac_path_EGREP="$as_dir$ac_prog$ac_exec_ext"
-      as_fn_executable_p "$ac_path_EGREP" || continue
-# Check for GNU ac_path_EGREP and select it if it is found.
-  # Check for GNU $ac_path_EGREP
-case `"$ac_path_EGREP" --version 2>&1` in
-*GNU*)
-  ac_cv_path_EGREP="$ac_path_EGREP" ac_path_EGREP_found=:;;
-*)
-  ac_count=0
-  printf %s 0123456789 >"conftest.in"
-  while :
-  do
-    cat "conftest.in" "conftest.in" >"conftest.tmp"
-    mv "conftest.tmp" "conftest.in"
-    cp "conftest.in" "conftest.nl"
-    printf "%s\n" 'EGREP' >> "conftest.nl"
-    "$ac_path_EGREP" 'EGREP$' < "conftest.nl" >"conftest.out" 2>/dev/null || break
-    diff "conftest.out" "conftest.nl" >/dev/null 2>&1 || break
-    as_fn_arith $ac_count + 1 && ac_count=$as_val
-    if test $ac_count -gt ${ac_path_EGREP_max-0}; then
-      # Best one so far, save it but keep looking for a better one
-      ac_cv_path_EGREP="$ac_path_EGREP"
-      ac_path_EGREP_max=$ac_count
-    fi
-    # 10*(2^10) chars as input seems more than enough
-    test $ac_count -gt 10 && break
-  done
-  rm -f conftest.in conftest.tmp conftest.nl conftest.out;;
-esac
-
-      $ac_path_EGREP_found && break 3
-    done
-  done
-  done
-IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  if test -z "$ac_cv_path_EGREP"; then
-    as_fn_error $? "no acceptable egrep could be found in $PATH$PATH_SEPARATOR/usr/xpg4/bin" "$LINENO" 5
-  fi
-else
-  ac_cv_path_EGREP=$EGREP
-fi
-
-   fi
-fi
-{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ac_cv_path_EGREP" >&5
-printf "%s\n" "$ac_cv_path_EGREP" >&6; }
- EGREP="$ac_cv_path_EGREP"
-
-
-
 ac_fn_c_check_header_compile "$LINENO" "string.h" "ac_cv_header_string_h" "$ac_includes_default"
 if test "x$ac_cv_header_string_h" = xyes
 then :
diff --git a/nbase/configure.ac b/nbase/configure.ac
index 0d8777014..a31a752fd 100644
--- a/nbase/configure.ac
+++ b/nbase/configure.ac
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ case "$host" in
 esac
 
 dnl Checks for header files.
-AC_HEADER_STDC
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([string.h getopt.h strings.h sys/param.h sys/time.h unistd.h
                   errno.h sys/select.h sys/time.h sys/types.h sys/socket.h
                   netinet/in.h arpa/inet.h sys/stat.h netdb.h sys/wait.h
diff --git a/ncat/configure b/ncat/configure
index 63b4c3646..35eb23b0c 100755
--- a/ncat/configure
+++ b/ncat/configure
@@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ test -x / || exit 1"
   as_suggested="  as_lineno_1=";as_suggested=$as_suggested$LINENO;as_suggested=$as_suggested" as_lineno_1a=\$LINENO
   as_lineno_2=";as_suggested=$as_suggested$LINENO;as_suggested=$as_suggested" as_lineno_2a=\$LINENO
   eval 'test \"x\$as_lineno_1'\$as_run'\" != \"x\$as_lineno_2'\$as_run'\" &&
-  test \"x\`expr \$as_lineno_1'\$as_run' + 1\`\" = \"x\$as_lineno_2'\$as_run'\"' || exit 1
-test \$(( 1 + 1 )) = 2 || exit 1"
+  test \"x\`expr \$as_lineno_1'\$as_run' + 1\`\" = \"x\$as_lineno_2'\$as_run'\"' || exit 1"
   if (eval "$as_required") 2>/dev/null
 then :
   as_have_required=yes
@@ -667,8 +666,6 @@ PCAP_DEPENDS
 libpcapdir
 OPENSSL_LIBS
 HAVE_OPENSSL
-EGREP
-GREP
 STRIP
 INSTALL_DATA
 INSTALL_SCRIPT
@@ -4008,181 +4005,6 @@ fi
 
 # Checks for header files.
 
-ac_header= ac_cache=
-for ac_item in $ac_header_c_list
-do
-  if test $ac_cache; then
-    ac_fn_c_check_header_compile "$LINENO" $ac_header ac_cv_header_$ac_cache "$ac_includes_default"
-    if eval test \"x\$ac_cv_header_$ac_cache\" = xyes; then
-      printf "%s\n" "#define $ac_item 1" >> confdefs.h
-    fi
-    ac_header= ac_cache=
-  elif test $ac_header; then
-    ac_cache=$ac_item
-  else
-    ac_header=$ac_item
-  fi
-done
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-if test $ac_cv_header_stdlib_h = yes && test $ac_cv_header_string_h = yes
-then :
-
-printf "%s\n" "#define STDC_HEADERS 1" >>confdefs.h
-
-fi
-{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for grep that handles long lines and -e" >&5
-printf %s "checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... " >&6; }
-if test ${ac_cv_path_GREP+y}
-then :
-  printf %s "(cached) " >&6
-else $as_nop
-  if test -z "$GREP"; then
-  ac_path_GREP_found=false
-  # Loop through the user's path and test for each of PROGNAME-LIST
-  as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
-for as_dir in $PATH$PATH_SEPARATOR/usr/xpg4/bin
-do
-  IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  case $as_dir in #(((
-    '') as_dir=./ ;;
-    */) ;;
-    *) as_dir=$as_dir/ ;;
-  esac
-    for ac_prog in grep ggrep
-   do
-    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
-      ac_path_GREP="$as_dir$ac_prog$ac_exec_ext"
-      as_fn_executable_p "$ac_path_GREP" || continue
-# Check for GNU ac_path_GREP and select it if it is found.
-  # Check for GNU $ac_path_GREP
-case `"$ac_path_GREP" --version 2>&1` in
-*GNU*)
-  ac_cv_path_GREP="$ac_path_GREP" ac_path_GREP_found=:;;
-*)
-  ac_count=0
-  printf %s 0123456789 >"conftest.in"
-  while :
-  do
-    cat "conftest.in" "conftest.in" >"conftest.tmp"
-    mv "conftest.tmp" "conftest.in"
-    cp "conftest.in" "conftest.nl"
-    printf "%s\n" 'GREP' >> "conftest.nl"
-    "$ac_path_GREP" -e 'GREP$' -e '-(cannot match)-' < "conftest.nl" >"conftest.out" 2>/dev/null || break
-    diff "conftest.out" "conftest.nl" >/dev/null 2>&1 || break
-    as_fn_arith $ac_count + 1 && ac_count=$as_val
-    if test $ac_count -gt ${ac_path_GREP_max-0}; then
-      # Best one so far, save it but keep looking for a better one
-      ac_cv_path_GREP="$ac_path_GREP"
-      ac_path_GREP_max=$ac_count
-    fi
-    # 10*(2^10) chars as input seems more than enough
-    test $ac_count -gt 10 && break
-  done
-  rm -f conftest.in conftest.tmp conftest.nl conftest.out;;
-esac
-
-      $ac_path_GREP_found && break 3
-    done
-  done
-  done
-IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  if test -z "$ac_cv_path_GREP"; then
-    as_fn_error $? "no acceptable grep could be found in $PATH$PATH_SEPARATOR/usr/xpg4/bin" "$LINENO" 5
-  fi
-else
-  ac_cv_path_GREP=$GREP
-fi
-
-fi
-{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ac_cv_path_GREP" >&5
-printf "%s\n" "$ac_cv_path_GREP" >&6; }
- GREP="$ac_cv_path_GREP"
-
-
-# Autoupdate added the next two lines to ensure that your configure
-# script's behavior did not change.  They are probably safe to remove.
-
-{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for egrep" >&5
-printf %s "checking for egrep... " >&6; }
-if test ${ac_cv_path_EGREP+y}
-then :
-  printf %s "(cached) " >&6
-else $as_nop
-  if echo a | $GREP -E '(a|b)' >/dev/null 2>&1
-   then ac_cv_path_EGREP="$GREP -E"
-   else
-     if test -z "$EGREP"; then
-  ac_path_EGREP_found=false
-  # Loop through the user's path and test for each of PROGNAME-LIST
-  as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
-for as_dir in $PATH$PATH_SEPARATOR/usr/xpg4/bin
-do
-  IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  case $as_dir in #(((
-    '') as_dir=./ ;;
-    */) ;;
-    *) as_dir=$as_dir/ ;;
-  esac
-    for ac_prog in egrep
-   do
-    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
-      ac_path_EGREP="$as_dir$ac_prog$ac_exec_ext"
-      as_fn_executable_p "$ac_path_EGREP" || continue
-# Check for GNU ac_path_EGREP and select it if it is found.
-  # Check for GNU $ac_path_EGREP
-case `"$ac_path_EGREP" --version 2>&1` in
-*GNU*)
-  ac_cv_path_EGREP="$ac_path_EGREP" ac_path_EGREP_found=:;;
-*)
-  ac_count=0
-  printf %s 0123456789 >"conftest.in"
-  while :
-  do
-    cat "conftest.in" "conftest.in" >"conftest.tmp"
-    mv "conftest.tmp" "conftest.in"
-    cp "conftest.in" "conftest.nl"
-    printf "%s\n" 'EGREP' >> "conftest.nl"
-    "$ac_path_EGREP" 'EGREP$' < "conftest.nl" >"conftest.out" 2>/dev/null || break
-    diff "conftest.out" "conftest.nl" >/dev/null 2>&1 || break
-    as_fn_arith $ac_count + 1 && ac_count=$as_val
-    if test $ac_count -gt ${ac_path_EGREP_max-0}; then
-      # Best one so far, save it but keep looking for a better one
-      ac_cv_path_EGREP="$ac_path_EGREP"
-      ac_path_EGREP_max=$ac_count
-    fi
-    # 10*(2^10) chars as input seems more than enough
-    test $ac_count -gt 10 && break
-  done
-  rm -f conftest.in conftest.tmp conftest.nl conftest.out;;
-esac
-
-      $ac_path_EGREP_found && break 3
-    done
-  done
-  done
-IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  if test -z "$ac_cv_path_EGREP"; then
-    as_fn_error $? "no acceptable egrep could be found in $PATH$PATH_SEPARATOR/usr/xpg4/bin" "$LINENO" 5
-  fi
-else
-  ac_cv_path_EGREP=$EGREP
-fi
-
-   fi
-fi
-{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ac_cv_path_EGREP" >&5
-printf "%s\n" "$ac_cv_path_EGREP" >&6; }
- EGREP="$ac_cv_path_EGREP"
-
-
-
 { printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible" >&5
 printf %s "checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... " >&6; }
 if test ${ac_cv_header_sys_wait_h+y}
@@ -4226,6 +4048,35 @@ printf "%s\n" "#define HAVE_SYS_WAIT_H 1" >>confdefs.h
 
 fi
 
+ac_header= ac_cache=
+for ac_item in $ac_header_c_list
+do
+  if test $ac_cache; then
+    ac_fn_c_check_header_compile "$LINENO" $ac_header ac_cv_header_$ac_cache "$ac_includes_default"
+    if eval test \"x\$ac_cv_header_$ac_cache\" = xyes; then
+      printf "%s\n" "#define $ac_item 1" >> confdefs.h
+    fi
+    ac_header= ac_cache=
+  elif test $ac_header; then
+    ac_cache=$ac_item
+  else
+    ac_header=$ac_item
+  fi
+done
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+if test $ac_cv_header_stdlib_h = yes && test $ac_cv_header_string_h = yes
+then :
+
+printf "%s\n" "#define STDC_HEADERS 1" >>confdefs.h
+
+fi
 ac_fn_c_check_header_compile "$LINENO" "fcntl.h" "ac_cv_header_fcntl_h" "$ac_includes_default"
 if test "x$ac_cv_header_fcntl_h" = xyes
 then :
diff --git a/ncat/configure.ac b/ncat/configure.ac
index dec6586d2..26b70895a 100644
--- a/ncat/configure.ac
+++ b/ncat/configure.ac
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ AC_PROG_INSTALL
 AC_PATH_TOOL([STRIP], [strip], [/bin/true])
 
 # Checks for header files.
-AC_HEADER_STDC
 AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([fcntl.h limits.h netdb.h netinet/in.h stdlib.h string.h strings.h sys/param.h sys/socket.h sys/time.h unistd.h sys/un.h])
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([linux/vm_sockets.h], , , [#include <sys/socket.h>])
@@ -125,8 +124,8 @@ have_libpcap=no
 test "${with_libpcap+set}" != "set" && with_libpcap=yes
 
 AC_ARG_WITH(libpcap,
-AC_HELP_STRING([--with-libpcap=DIR], [Look for pcap in DIR/include and DIR/libs.])
-AC_HELP_STRING([--with-libpcap=included], [Always use version included with Nmap]),
+AS_HELP_STRING([--with-libpcap=DIR], [Look for pcap in DIR/include and DIR/libs.])
+AS_HELP_STRING([--with-libpcap=included], [Always use version included with Nmap]),
 [  case "$with_libpcap" in
   yes)
     AC_CHECK_HEADER(pcap.h,[
@@ -212,9 +211,9 @@ no_lua=no
 
 # First we test whether they specified liblua explicitly
 AC_ARG_WITH(liblua,
-AC_HELP_STRING([--with-liblua=DIR], [Use an existing (compiled) lua lib from DIR/include and DIR/lib.])
-AC_HELP_STRING([--with-liblua=included], [Use the liblua version included with Nmap])
-AC_HELP_STRING([--without-liblua], [Compile without lua (this will exclude all of NSE from compilation)]),
+AS_HELP_STRING([--with-liblua=DIR], [Use an existing (compiled) lua lib from DIR/include and DIR/lib.])
+AS_HELP_STRING([--with-liblua=included], [Use the liblua version included with Nmap])
+AS_HELP_STRING([--without-liblua], [Compile without lua (this will exclude all of NSE from compilation)]),
 [  case "$with_liblua" in
   yes)
   ;;
diff --git a/nsock/src/configure b/nsock/src/configure
index 6a82b5b94..96706061e 100755
--- a/nsock/src/configure
+++ b/nsock/src/configure
@@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ test -x / || exit 1"
   as_suggested="  as_lineno_1=";as_suggested=$as_suggested$LINENO;as_suggested=$as_suggested" as_lineno_1a=\$LINENO
   as_lineno_2=";as_suggested=$as_suggested$LINENO;as_suggested=$as_suggested" as_lineno_2a=\$LINENO
   eval 'test \"x\$as_lineno_1'\$as_run'\" != \"x\$as_lineno_2'\$as_run'\" &&
-  test \"x\`expr \$as_lineno_1'\$as_run' + 1\`\" = \"x\$as_lineno_2'\$as_run'\"' || exit 1
-test \$(( 1 + 1 )) = 2 || exit 1"
+  test \"x\`expr \$as_lineno_1'\$as_run' + 1\`\" = \"x\$as_lineno_2'\$as_run'\"' || exit 1"
   if (eval "$as_required") 2>/dev/null
 then :
   as_have_required=yes
@@ -652,8 +651,6 @@ NSOCKTESTDIR
 NBASEDIR
 LIBNBASE_LIBS
 OPENSSL_LIBS
-EGREP
-GREP
 RANLIB
 LIBPCAP_LIBS
 OBJEXT
@@ -4871,152 +4868,6 @@ fi
 fi
 
 
-{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for grep that handles long lines and -e" >&5
-printf %s "checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... " >&6; }
-if test ${ac_cv_path_GREP+y}
-then :
-  printf %s "(cached) " >&6
-else $as_nop
-  if test -z "$GREP"; then
-  ac_path_GREP_found=false
-  # Loop through the user's path and test for each of PROGNAME-LIST
-  as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
-for as_dir in $PATH$PATH_SEPARATOR/usr/xpg4/bin
-do
-  IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  case $as_dir in #(((
-    '') as_dir=./ ;;
-    */) ;;
-    *) as_dir=$as_dir/ ;;
-  esac
-    for ac_prog in grep ggrep
-   do
-    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
-      ac_path_GREP="$as_dir$ac_prog$ac_exec_ext"
-      as_fn_executable_p "$ac_path_GREP" || continue
-# Check for GNU ac_path_GREP and select it if it is found.
-  # Check for GNU $ac_path_GREP
-case `"$ac_path_GREP" --version 2>&1` in
-*GNU*)
-  ac_cv_path_GREP="$ac_path_GREP" ac_path_GREP_found=:;;
-*)
-  ac_count=0
-  printf %s 0123456789 >"conftest.in"
-  while :
-  do
-    cat "conftest.in" "conftest.in" >"conftest.tmp"
-    mv "conftest.tmp" "conftest.in"
-    cp "conftest.in" "conftest.nl"
-    printf "%s\n" 'GREP' >> "conftest.nl"
-    "$ac_path_GREP" -e 'GREP$' -e '-(cannot match)-' < "conftest.nl" >"conftest.out" 2>/dev/null || break
-    diff "conftest.out" "conftest.nl" >/dev/null 2>&1 || break
-    as_fn_arith $ac_count + 1 && ac_count=$as_val
-    if test $ac_count -gt ${ac_path_GREP_max-0}; then
-      # Best one so far, save it but keep looking for a better one
-      ac_cv_path_GREP="$ac_path_GREP"
-      ac_path_GREP_max=$ac_count
-    fi
-    # 10*(2^10) chars as input seems more than enough
-    test $ac_count -gt 10 && break
-  done
-  rm -f conftest.in conftest.tmp conftest.nl conftest.out;;
-esac
-
-      $ac_path_GREP_found && break 3
-    done
-  done
-  done
-IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  if test -z "$ac_cv_path_GREP"; then
-    as_fn_error $? "no acceptable grep could be found in $PATH$PATH_SEPARATOR/usr/xpg4/bin" "$LINENO" 5
-  fi
-else
-  ac_cv_path_GREP=$GREP
-fi
-
-fi
-{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ac_cv_path_GREP" >&5
-printf "%s\n" "$ac_cv_path_GREP" >&6; }
- GREP="$ac_cv_path_GREP"
-
-
-# Autoupdate added the next two lines to ensure that your configure
-# script's behavior did not change.  They are probably safe to remove.
-
-{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for egrep" >&5
-printf %s "checking for egrep... " >&6; }
-if test ${ac_cv_path_EGREP+y}
-then :
-  printf %s "(cached) " >&6
-else $as_nop
-  if echo a | $GREP -E '(a|b)' >/dev/null 2>&1
-   then ac_cv_path_EGREP="$GREP -E"
-   else
-     if test -z "$EGREP"; then
-  ac_path_EGREP_found=false
-  # Loop through the user's path and test for each of PROGNAME-LIST
-  as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
-for as_dir in $PATH$PATH_SEPARATOR/usr/xpg4/bin
-do
-  IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  case $as_dir in #(((
-    '') as_dir=./ ;;
-    */) ;;
-    *) as_dir=$as_dir/ ;;
-  esac
-    for ac_prog in egrep
-   do
-    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
-      ac_path_EGREP="$as_dir$ac_prog$ac_exec_ext"
-      as_fn_executable_p "$ac_path_EGREP" || continue
-# Check for GNU ac_path_EGREP and select it if it is found.
-  # Check for GNU $ac_path_EGREP
-case `"$ac_path_EGREP" --version 2>&1` in
-*GNU*)
-  ac_cv_path_EGREP="$ac_path_EGREP" ac_path_EGREP_found=:;;
-*)
-  ac_count=0
-  printf %s 0123456789 >"conftest.in"
-  while :
-  do
-    cat "conftest.in" "conftest.in" >"conftest.tmp"
-    mv "conftest.tmp" "conftest.in"
-    cp "conftest.in" "conftest.nl"
-    printf "%s\n" 'EGREP' >> "conftest.nl"
-    "$ac_path_EGREP" 'EGREP$' < "conftest.nl" >"conftest.out" 2>/dev/null || break
-    diff "conftest.out" "conftest.nl" >/dev/null 2>&1 || break
-    as_fn_arith $ac_count + 1 && ac_count=$as_val
-    if test $ac_count -gt ${ac_path_EGREP_max-0}; then
-      # Best one so far, save it but keep looking for a better one
-      ac_cv_path_EGREP="$ac_path_EGREP"
-      ac_path_EGREP_max=$ac_count
-    fi
-    # 10*(2^10) chars as input seems more than enough
-    test $ac_count -gt 10 && break
-  done
-  rm -f conftest.in conftest.tmp conftest.nl conftest.out;;
-esac
-
-      $ac_path_EGREP_found && break 3
-    done
-  done
-  done
-IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  if test -z "$ac_cv_path_EGREP"; then
-    as_fn_error $? "no acceptable egrep could be found in $PATH$PATH_SEPARATOR/usr/xpg4/bin" "$LINENO" 5
-  fi
-else
-  ac_cv_path_EGREP=$EGREP
-fi
-
-   fi
-fi
-{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ac_cv_path_EGREP" >&5
-printf "%s\n" "$ac_cv_path_EGREP" >&6; }
- EGREP="$ac_cv_path_EGREP"
-
-
-
 ac_fn_c_check_header_compile "$LINENO" "net/bpf.h" "ac_cv_header_net_bpf_h" "$ac_includes_default"
 if test "x$ac_cv_header_net_bpf_h" = xyes
 then :
diff --git a/nsock/src/configure.ac b/nsock/src/configure.ac
index 7e64521b0..26bab9fda 100644
--- a/nsock/src/configure.ac
+++ b/nsock/src/configure.ac
@@ -122,9 +122,9 @@ have_libpcap=no
 test "${with_libpcap+set}" != "set" && with_libpcap=yes
 
 AC_ARG_WITH(libpcap,
-AC_HELP_STRING([--with-libpcap=DIR], [Look for pcap headers in DIR/include.])
-AC_HELP_STRING([--with-libpcap=included], [Always use version included with Nmap])
-AC_HELP_STRING([--without-libpcap], [Disable pcap functions.]),
+AS_HELP_STRING([--with-libpcap=DIR], [Look for pcap headers in DIR/include.])
+AS_HELP_STRING([--with-libpcap=included], [Always use version included with Nmap])
+AS_HELP_STRING([--without-libpcap], [Disable pcap functions.]),
 [  case "$with_libpcap" in
   yes)
     AC_CHECK_HEADER(pcap.h,[
@@ -204,7 +204,6 @@ dnl need posix4/nanosleep for solaris 2.4
 AC_CHECK_FUNC(nanosleep, , AC_CHECK_LIB(posix4, nanosleep))
 
 dnl Checks for header files.
-AC_HEADER_STDC
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(net/bpf.h sys/ioctl.h sys/un.h netdb.h)
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([linux/vm_sockets.h], , , [#include <sys/socket.h>])
 
@@ -212,7 +211,7 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([linux/vm_sockets.h], , , [#include <sys/socket.h>])
 use_openssl="yes"
 specialssldir=""
 AC_ARG_WITH(openssl,
-AC_HELP_STRING([--with-openssl=DIR],[Use optional openssl libs and includes from [DIR]/lib/ and [DIR]/include/openssl/)]),
+AS_HELP_STRING([--with-openssl=DIR],[Use optional openssl libs and includes from [DIR]/lib/ and [DIR]/include/openssl/)]),
 [  case "$with_openssl" in
   yes)
     ;;