[bug-grep] Re: grep-2.5.1a tarball

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 04:54:46PM -0400, Tony Abou-Assaleh wrote:
> SunOS gimli 5.8 Generic_108528-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
[...]
> Similarly, all test for grep-2.5.1 and grep-2.5.1a passed on FreeBSD
> 4.10-STABLE i386 and FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE.

these systems don't have ``glibc'' (GNU libc); they have their own
version of libc.  That's why grep build with it's own regex, as if you
called ./configure --with-included-regex .
It doesn't use the system's regex.

> 'typescript.configure.txt' for the error messages.

I won't try to fix this for 2.5.1a.  There is no regression from 2.5.1.

> I currently have access to the following systems: FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE,
> FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE, FreeBSD 5.3-RC1, and SunOS 5.8 sparc. I'll be happy
> to test stuff on these systems.

Yes, this is very valuable.  I'll move to current autotools soon, then I'll
ask you to try again.  And we have to look to FreeBSD's patches.

I hope we'll get this fixed for 2.5.2.

With kind regards,
        Stepan Kasal