Re: new snapshot available: grep-3.9.4-c83f

[Jim Meyering]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 1:50 PM Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
> > this snapshot really was built with
> > the very latest autoconf from master. Compare with grep-3.9, which
> > was bootstrapped using a version of autoconf from October.
> > ...
> > grep snapshot:
> >   https://meyering.net/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz      1.7 MB
> >   https://meyering.net/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz.sig
> >   https://meyering.net/grep/grep-3.9.4-c83f.tar.xz
>
> The following platform-oriented tests showed no problems:
>   * Compilation succeeded and all tests passed on
>     - Ubuntu 22.04
>     - Alpine Linux 3.14, 3.17
>     - macOS 12.5
>     - FreeBSD 13.1
>     - OpenBSD 7.2 with gcc, with cc
>     - Cygwin 2.9.0
>     - Solaris 11.4
>     - Solaris 11 OpenIndiana
>     - AIX 7.1, 7.2
>   * Compilation succeeded and only 1 test failure (known) on
>     - NetBSD 9.0
>
> I also did compiler-oriented tests: Compilation with
>   - gcc 4.2.4, 4.3.6, 4.4.7, 4.5.4, 4.6.4, 4.7.4, 4.8.5, 4.9.4, 5.5.0,
>     6.5.0, 7.5.0, 8.5.0, 9.5.0, 10.4.0, 11.3.0, 12.2.0,
>   - clang 15, 16
> and noticed
>
> * From autoconf: only expected effects:
>
>   gcc versions 4.2.4 ... 4.6.4 : uses -std=gnu99 by default
>   gcc versions 4.7.3 ... 4.9.4 : uses -std=gnu11 by default
>   gcc versions 5.5.0 ... 12.2.0 : uses no -std option by default
>
>   clang version 15: ac_cv_c_undeclared_builtin_options=-fno-builtin
>   clang version 16: ac_cv_c_undeclared_builtin_options='none needed'
>
> * From gnulib: The test "checking whether stdint.h conforms to C99..."
>   reported 'no' for gcc 4.7.3, 4.8.5. This is because of this code
>   | #if 201112 <= __STDC_VERSION__
>   | int k = _Generic (SIZE_MAX, size_t: 0);
>   The effect is harmless: It just means that Gnulib prepares a substitute
>   stdint.h although none would be necessary.
>
> SUMMARY: No autoconf related problem is visible from this snapshot tarball.

Thanks yet again for a massive and thorough testing job.

I see you've been making some useful-looking changes in gnulib in the
last few days, and I'm planning to pull gnulib's master for grep-3.10,
likely tomorrow.