On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> Sounds like it must be something fundamental. I've just confirmed that >> at commit v2.25-100-gcd8082e `./bootstrap && ./configure && make && >> make distcheck` succeeds on both Fedora 24 and Debian unstable. >> >> Did you rerun ./bootstrap? > > > Yes. > > I think the difference is that I'm not running plain 'make' first. I jump > straight to 'make dist'. That is, from a fresh copy of grep (same commit as > yours), I run: > > ./bootstrap && ./configure && make dist > > and this gets the tight_scope failure I mentioned earlier, on Ubuntu 16.04.1 > LTS anyway.
Oh, thanks. That was indeed a missing dependency. This patch fixes it for me:
build--avoid-missing-dep-failure.diff
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