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Re: coreutils: tac test failure on Linux
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: coreutils: tac test failure on Linux |
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Date: |
Mon Sep 30 11:37:02 2002 |
> > On Linux/x86 with glibc-2.2.91:
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> > make check-TESTS
> > make[3]: Entering directory `/packages/coreutils-4.5.1/build/tests/tac'
> > *** opt-r.O Sat Sep 7 14:40:53 2002
> > --- ../../../tests/tac/opt-r.X Mon Jul 1 11:26:28 2002
> > ***************
> > *** 1 ****
> > ! 1._2.__3.___4._
> > \ No newline at end of file
> > --- 1 ----
> > ! 4._3.___2.__1._
> > \ No newline at end of file
> > *** opt-r.O Sat Sep 7 14:40:53 2002
> > --- ../../../tests/tac/opt-r.X Mon Jul 1 11:26:28 2002
> [...lots more of the same...]
More details:
The reason is that in tac.c:256 the fifth argument to re_search is negative
(= -15), which is outside the specification. glibc-2.3 has a completely new
regex implementation.
Bruno