On 01/15/2016 10:39 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
IIRC, this is a bug in gnulib.
Thanks for mentioning that. The gnulib bug has nothing to do with whether grep works (it's merely a maintainer-tool issue), so I removed it from the list of tests for 'grep' by installing the attached patch, and am closing the grep bug report. Someone who likes to deal with test cases and Perl (probably not me :-) can take a look at it from the gnulib point of view whenever they have the time.
From 1854b457602f0a2f7c58fc6ecec5aa9f567ffc30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 11:23:13 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] tests: omit update-copyright-tests This test does not check how 'grep' itself operates, so it is out of place for grep's 'make check'. Problem reported by Sam Razavi in: http://bugs.gnu.org/22376 * bootstrap.conf (avoided_gnulib_modules): Add update-copyright-tests. --- bootstrap.conf | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf index 22f5c21..3bff7c3 100644 --- a/bootstrap.conf +++ b/bootstrap.conf @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ avoided_gnulib_modules=' --avoid=lock-tests --avoid=mbrtowc-tests + --avoid=update-copyright-tests ' # gnulib modules used by this package. -- 2.5.0
