bug#22702: [bug-grep] grep-2.23 build feedback

2020-09-21 Thread Paul Eggert
On 9/8/16 7:20 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: This should fix Bug#21815 so I'll close that bug report while I'm at it. Bug#22702 (build feedback for grep 2.23) has been superseded by Nelson H. F. Beebe's more recent build report for grep-3.4-almost.19-ff30: https://lists.gnu.org/r/grep-devel/2020-0

bug#22702: [bug-grep] grep-2.23 build feedback

2016-09-08 Thread Jim Meyering
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> I actually wrote a patch to fix the automake bug that led to this, >> but did not find the time to write a stand-alone test case. >> Today, I wrote the commit log entry and am attaching the >> incomplete diff (no NEWS a

bug#22702: [bug-grep] grep-2.23 build feedback

2016-09-08 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering wrote: I actually wrote a patch to fix the automake bug that led to this, but did not find the time to write a stand-alone test case. Today, I wrote the commit log entry and am attaching the incomplete diff (no NEWS and no test) here, in case someone wants to help move this along bef

bug#22702: [bug-grep] grep-2.23 build feedback

2016-02-18 Thread Jim Meyering
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: ... Thank you for all of the feedback. I agree that many of the failures are due to inadequate library support, and we should eventually improve the tests to detect the inferior interfaces and diagnose them as such. However, that is not on

bug#22702: [bug-grep] grep-2.23 build feedback

2016-02-16 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
I've just been through a collection of build logs on more than 75 flavors of Unix for grep-2.23, and am pleased to report that all tests passed on 46 of them. Most of the others reported only 1 or 2 failures, but because the failures are similar across platforms, I summarize them here: FAIL: