Re: the release of grep-2.9 is imminent

[Jim Meyering]

Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 June 2011, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> ...
>> >> FYI, I've just pushed the following.
>> >> Now, I expect to tag grep-2.9 and release later today.
>> >> Last chance...
>> >>
>> > On NetBSD 5.1, I'm seeing this failure by running `make -j2' in the
>> > gnulib-tests subdirectory:
>>
>> Thanks for the report.
>> That sounds really minor indeed, so I won't worry about it for now.
>>
> I agree that this is the most sensible choice, since you're going to
> do a bug-fixing release.
>
> JFTR, there is still another problem (even minor than that, so you might
> ignore it too for the moment); after checking out and bootstrapping grep
> from the git repository, the working copy is left with uncommitted
> modifications:
>
>   $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/grep
>   ...
>   $ cd grep
>   $ ./bootstrap
>   ...
>   ./bootstrap: ln -fs ../gnulib/build-aux/depcomp build-aux/depcomp
>   ./bootstrap: ln -fs ../gnulib/build-aux/config.guess build-aux/config.guess
>   ./bootstrap: ln -fs ../gnulib/build-aux/config.sub build-aux/config.sub
>   ./bootstrap: ln -fs gnulib/doc/INSTALL INSTALL
>   ./bootstrap: Creating po/Makevars from po/Makevars.template ...
>   ./bootstrap: done.  Now you can run './configure'.
>   $ git status
>   # On branch master
>   # Changed but not updated:
>   #   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
>   #   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working 
> directory)
>   #
>   #       modified:   .gitignore
>   #       modified:   build-aux/.gitignore
>   #       modified:   doc/.gitignore
>   #       modified:   po/.gitignore
>   #
>   no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
>   $ git diff
>   diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
>   index 04320a6..818afc1 100644
>   --- a/.gitignore
>   +++ b/.gitignore
>   @@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
>   -!/gnulib-tests/Makefile.am
>   -!/lib/Makefile.am
>   -!/lib/savedir.c
>   -!/lib/savedir.h
>   -!/m4/djgpp.m4
>    *.a
>    *.exe
>    *.o
>   @@ -58,3 +53,8 @@ ChangeLog
>    Makefile
>    Makefile.in
>    TAGS
>   +!/gnulib-tests/Makefile.am
>   +!/lib/Makefile.am
>   +!/lib/savedir.c
>   +!/lib/savedir.h
>   +!/m4/djgpp.m4
>   diff --git a/build-aux/.gitignore b/build-aux/.gitignore
>   index a561ced..f8d7fb8 100644
>   --- a/build-aux/.gitignore
>   +++ b/build-aux/.gitignore
>   @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
>   +
>    /announce-gen
>    /arg-nonnull.h
>    /c++defs.h
>   @@ -21,3 +22,4 @@
>    /useless-if-before-free
>    /vc-list-files
>    /warn-on-use.h
>   +

Thank you for the report.
I've noticed that, too, though only the insertion of newline-at-EOF in
each .gitignore file.  I've Cc'd bug-gnulib, since gnulib-tool appears
to be doing it.

I notice that some of your differences appear to be due to sorting
with a different locale than I use.  That implies there's a second
problem: perhaps one of gnulib-tool's uses of sort is not prefixed
with LC_ALL=C.