Re: coreutils-6.8 - error in expr

2007-06-13 Thread Vin Shelton
On 6/13/07, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Vin Shelton wrote: > James Youngman wrote: > > If you rebuild with ICC, does the problem persist? > > Yes. It will be interesting to see what is happening there. > > If so, could you try the things that Jim and Bob suggested? > > Specifically, s

Re: coreutils-6.8 - error in expr

2007-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Vin Shelton wrote: > James Youngman wrote: > > If you rebuild with ICC, does the problem persist? > > Yes. It will be interesting to see what is happening there. > > If so, could you try the things that Jim and Bob suggested? > > Specifically, sending us the config.log files and trying > > "conf

Re: coreutils-6.8 - error in expr

2007-06-13 Thread Vin Shelton
On 6/13/07, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/13/07, Vin Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/12/07, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If, after the above, you still see the problem, please save a copy of > > your config.log file (evidence! to send here). Then you ca

Re: coreutils-6.8 - error in expr

2007-06-13 Thread James Youngman
On 6/13/07, Vin Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/12/07, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If, after the above, you still see the problem, please save a copy of > your config.log file (evidence! to send here). Then you can probably > work around it by rebuilding with ./configure

Re: coreutils-6.8 - error in expr

2007-06-12 Thread Vin Shelton
On 6/12/07, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: ... > I can't recreate that. First I tried the current version control head > and it worked fine with your test case. So I pulled the prior 6.8 > bundle and compiled it. > > $ wget ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gn

Re: coreutils-6.8 - error in expr

2007-06-12 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That will ensure that you use the regex code bundled with coreutils, > which may be less buggy than what's in your systems C library. In the meantime it shouldn't hurt to test for the buggy regexp he mentioned. I installed this into gnulib: 2007-06-12

Re: coreutils-6.8 - error in expr

2007-06-11 Thread Jim Meyering
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: ... > I can't recreate that. First I tried the current version control head > and it worked fine with your test case. So I pulled the prior 6.8 > bundle and compiled it. > > $ wget ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.8.tar.bz2 > $ tar xjf coreut

Re: coreutils-6.8 - error in expr

2007-06-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Vin Shelton wrote: > I believe I found a bug (or at least a change) in the behavior of expr > in coreutils-6.8. Thank you for the report. However I can't recreate the problem you describe using coreutils-6.8. Was this coreutils that you compiled yourself? If so on what operating system? I am a

coreutils-6.8 - error in expr

2007-06-11 Thread Vin Shelton
Greetings, I believe I found a bug (or at least a change) in the behavior of expr in coreutils-6.8. Formerly this command: expr 20x11-common_process-args : '[[:alnum:]_-]\+$' returned the value 25. As of coreutils-6.8, that command returns an error: /opt/bin/expr-broken 20x11-common_process-a