Re: new snapshot available: grep-3.4-almost.26-5419

[Jim Meyering]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:22 PM Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/17/20 11:49 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
...
> >    https://meyering.net/grep/grep-3.4-almost.26-5419.tar.xz
>
> On a LinuxFromScratch system (LFS-10.0) make check gives:
>
>     GNU grep 3.4-almost.26-5419: tests/test-suite.log
> =======================================================

Hi Bruce,
Thanks for testing.
Unfortunately, your testing environment appears to be fatally broken.

> # TOTAL: 114
> # PASS:  0

Not a single test passed!

> # SKIP:  113

> Where all the SKIPs say:
> backref: skipped test: failed to find an adequate shell

Test infra detected that your version of bash is broken.
The testing harness requires a bourne shell with certain minimal capabilities.
That system's version of bash lacked enough to be rejected. The bash
5.0.17 on a Fedora 32 system works fine for me.

> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL:  1

The sole perl-based test ran, but the just-built grep binary is also
nonfunctional, so it failed, too.

> FAIL: filename-lineno
> =====================
>
> invalid-re...
> sh: line 1: 15041 Segmentation fault      grep -f g > invalid-re.O 2>
> invalid-re.E
> filename-lineno.pl: test invalid-re failed: exit status mismatch:
> expected 2, got 139
> invalid-re-2-files...
> sh: line 1: 15043 Segmentation fault      grep -f g -f h >