Re: [Bug-gnu-utils] grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2 bug report

[Chris Pollitt]

Alain Magloire wrote:

> Again, I'm not able to reproduce this in my environment.
> Checking, if you type "which grep" , you are indeed running
> GNU grep-2.4.2 not some other grep in you PATH ?

OK, I have finally nailed this one down.  It is a "locale" problem after all.
It seems that with grep-2.4.2 if you have your "locale" unset or set to "C",
all is fine.  However, if you have it set to something else, problems arise.
A few things to note:

1) This is not a problem with grep-2.4
2) This bug does not get caught in the "make check" step of the grep-2.4.2
build
3) The locale is set by default on Mandrake systems.  (On mine it's set to
LANG=en).

I hope this helps.

Thanks for your help,
   -Chris

ps:  I have manually set LANG=en_CA on my Redhat system because gdm-2.0beta4
seems to set it to "(null)" which causes perl to have a hissy fit.  But that's
a bug for another day...

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