Re: the release of grep-2.9 is imminent

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Tuesday 21 June 2011, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
> > I'm prepared to release grep-2.9.
> > There have been more than enough fixes since 2.8:
> > (from NEWS):
> >
> >     grep no longer clobbers heap for an ERE like '(^| )*( |$)'
> >     [bug introduced in grep-2.6]
> >
> >     grep is faster on regular expressions that match multibyte characters
> >     in brackets (such as '[<C3><A1><C3><A9><C3><AD><C3><B3><C3><BA>]').
> >
> >     echo c|grep '[c]' would fail for any c in 0x80..0xff, with a uni-byte
> >     encoding for which the byte-to-wide-char mapping is nontrivial.  For
> >     example, the ISO-88591 locales are not affected, but ru_RU.KOI8-R is.
> >     [bug introduced in grep-2.6]
> >
> >     grep -P no longer aborts when PCRE's backtracking limit is exceeded
> >     Before, echo aaaaaaaaaaaaaab |grep -P '((a+)*)+$' would abort.  Now,
> >     it diagnoses the problem and exits with status 2.
> >
> > If anyone has something that they'd like to see in 2.9,
> > please let us know.
> >
> > Also, I want to make this bug-fix release before we perform
> > any regex-rationalization surgery.
> 
> FYI, I've just pushed the following.
> Now, I expect to tag grep-2.9 and release later today.
> Last chance...
>
On NetBSD 5.1, I'm seeing this failure by running `make -j2' in the
gnulib-tests subdirectory:

=======================================================================

--- check ---
make  check-recursive
--- check-recursive ---
Making check in .
--- check-am ---
make  libtests.a test-alloca-opt test-argmatch  test-binary-io test-bitrotate  
test-btowc test-c-ctype  test-c-strcasecmp test-c-strncasecmp  test-ctype 
test-dirent test-dirname  test-dup2 test-environ test-errno  test-exclude 
test-fcntl-h  test-float test-fnmatch  test-fpending test-getcwd-lgpl  
test-getopt test-hash test-iconv-h  test-iconv test-ignore-value  test-intprops 
test-inttostr  test-inttypes test-isblank  test-iswblank test-langinfo  
test-locale test-localename  test-lock test-lseek test-lstat  test-malloc-gnu 
test-malloca  test-mbrtowc test-mbrtowc-w32  test-mbscasecmp test-mbsinit  
test-mbsrtowcs test-mbsstr1  test-mbsstr2 test-mbsstr3  test-memchr 
test-nl_langinfo  test-open test-quotearg-simple  test-realloc-gnu test-setenv  
test-setlocale1 test-setlocale2  test-snprintf test-stat  test-stdbool 
test-stddef  test-stdint test-stdio test-stdlib  test-strerror test-striconv  
test-string test-strnlen  test-symlink test-sys_stat  test-time test-unistd  
test-u8-mbtoucr test-u8-uctomb  test-uc_width test-uc_width2  test-unsetenv 
test-vasnprintf  test-verify test-version-etc  test-wchar test-wcrtomb  
test-wcrtomb-w32 test-wctype-h  test-wcwidth test-xalloc-die  test-xstrtol 
test-xstrtoul  test-xstrtoumax
--- test-verify.o ---
  CC     test-verify.o
--- test-verify ---
  CCLD   test-verify
`libtests.a' is up to date.
`test-alloca-opt' is up to date.
`test-argmatch' is up to date.
`test-binary-io' is up to date.
`test-bitrotate' is up to date.
`test-btowc' is up to date.
`test-c-ctype' is up to date.
`test-c-strcasecmp' is up to date.
`test-c-strncasecmp' is up to date.
`test-ctype' is up to date.
`test-dirent' is up to date.
`test-dirname' is up to date.
`test-dup2' is up to date.
`test-environ' is up to date.
`test-errno' is up to date.
`test-exclude' is up to date.
`test-fcntl-h' is up to date.
`test-float' is up to date.
`test-fnmatch' is up to date.
`test-fpending' is up to date.
`test-getcwd-lgpl' is up to date.
`test-getopt' is up to date.
`test-hash' is up to date.
`test-iconv-h' is up to date.
`test-iconv' is up to date.
`test-ignore-value' is up to date.
`test-intprops' is up to date.
`test-inttostr' is up to date.
`test-inttypes' is up to date.
`test-isblank' is up to date.
`test-iswblank' is up to date.
`test-langinfo' is up to date.
`test-locale' is up to date.
`test-localename' is up to date.
`test-lock' is up to date.
`test-lseek' is up to date.
`test-lstat' is up to date.
`test-malloc-gnu' is up to date.
`test-malloca' is up to date.
`test-mbrtowc' is up to date.
`test-mbrtowc-w32' is up to date.
`test-mbscasecmp' is up to date.
`test-mbsinit' is up to date.
`test-mbsrtowcs' is up to date.
`test-mbsstr1' is up to date.
`test-mbsstr2' is up to date.
`test-mbsstr3' is up to date.
`test-memchr' is up to date.
`test-nl_langinfo' is up to date.
`test-open' is up to date.
`test-quotearg-simple' is up to date.
`test-realloc-gnu' is up to date.
`test-setenv' is up to date.
`test-setlocale1' is up to date.
`test-setlocale2' is up to date.
`test-snprintf' is up to date.
`test-stat' is up to date.
`test-stdbool' is up to date.
`test-stddef' is up to date.
`test-stdint' is up to date.
`test-stdio' is up to date.
`test-stdlib' is up to date.
`test-strerror' is up to date.
`test-striconv' is up to date.
`test-string' is up to date.
`test-strnlen' is up to date.
`test-symlink' is up to date.
`test-sys_stat' is up to date.
`test-time' is up to date.
`test-unistd' is up to date.
`test-u8-mbtoucr' is up to date.
`test-u8-uctomb' is up to date.
`test-uc_width' is up to date.
`test-uc_width2' is up to date.
`test-unsetenv' is up to date.
`test-vasnprintf' is up to date.
`test-version-etc' is up to date.
`test-wchar' is up to date.
`test-wcrtomb' is up to date.
`test-wcrtomb-w32' is up to date.
`test-wctype-h' is up to date.
`test-wcwidth' is up to date.
`test-xalloc-die' is up to date.
`test-xstrtol' is up to date.
`test-xstrtoul' is up to date.
`test-xstrtoumax' is up to date.
make  check-TESTS
--- check-TESTS ---
--- test-binary-io.sh.log ---
--- test-btowc1.sh.log ---
PASS: test-btowc1.sh
--- test-binary-io.sh.log ---
PASS: test-binary-io.sh
--- test-btowc2.sh.log ---
--- test-c-strcase.sh.log ---
--- test-btowc2.sh.log ---
PASS: test-btowc2.sh
--- test-c-strcase.sh.log ---
PASS: test-c-strcase.sh
--- test-exclude1.sh.log ---
--- test-exclude2.sh.log ---
--- test-exclude1.sh.log ---
PASS: test-exclude1.sh
--- test-exclude2.sh.log ---
PASS: test-exclude2.sh
--- test-exclude3.sh.log ---
--- test-exclude4.sh.log ---
--- test-exclude3.sh.log ---
PASS: test-exclude3.sh
--- test-exclude4.sh.log ---
PASS: test-exclude4.sh
--- test-exclude5.sh.log ---
--- test-exclude6.sh.log ---
--- test-exclude5.sh.log ---
PASS: test-exclude5.sh
--- test-exclude6.sh.log ---
PASS: test-exclude6.sh
--- test-exclude7.sh.log ---
--- test-exclude8.sh.log ---
PASS: test-exclude8.sh
--- test-exclude7.sh.log ---
PASS: test-exclude7.sh
--- test-fpending.sh.log ---
--- test-lseek.sh.log ---
--- test-fpending.sh.log ---
PASS: test-fpending.sh
--- test-mbrtowc1.sh.log ---
PASS: test-mbrtowc1.sh
--- test-lseek.sh.log ---
PASS: test-lseek.sh
--- test-mbrtowc2.sh.log ---
--- test-mbrtowc3.sh.log ---
PASS: test-mbrtowc3.sh
--- test-mbrtowc2.sh.log ---
PASS: test-mbrtowc2.sh
--- test-mbrtowc4.sh.log ---
--- test-mbrtowc-w32-1.sh.log ---
--- test-mbrtowc4.sh.log ---
PASS: test-mbrtowc4.sh
--- test-mbrtowc-w32-1.sh.log ---
SKIP: test-mbrtowc-w32-1.sh
--- test-mbrtowc-w32-2.sh.log ---
--- test-mbrtowc-w32-3.sh.log ---
--- test-mbrtowc-w32-2.sh.log ---
SKIP: test-mbrtowc-w32-2.sh
--- test-mbrtowc-w32-3.sh.log ---
SKIP: test-mbrtowc-w32-3.sh
--- test-mbrtowc-w32-4.sh.log ---
--- test-mbrtowc-w32-5.sh.log ---
SKIP: test-mbrtowc-w32-5.sh
--- test-mbrtowc-w32-4.sh.log ---
SKIP: test-mbrtowc-w32-4.sh
--- test-mbscasecmp.sh.log ---
--- test-mbsinit.sh.log ---
--- test-mbscasecmp.sh.log ---
SKIP: test-mbscasecmp.sh
--- test-mbsrtowcs1.sh.log ---
--- test-mbsinit.sh.log ---
PASS: test-mbsinit.sh
--- test-mbsrtowcs2.sh.log ---
--- test-mbsrtowcs1.sh.log ---
PASS: test-mbsrtowcs1.sh
--- test-mbsrtowcs3.sh.log ---
--- test-mbsrtowcs2.sh.log ---
PASS: test-mbsrtowcs2.sh
--- test-mbsrtowcs4.sh.log ---
--- test-mbsrtowcs3.sh.log ---
PASS: test-mbsrtowcs3.sh
--- test-mbsstr2.sh.log ---
--- test-mbsrtowcs4.sh.log ---
PASS: test-mbsrtowcs4.sh
--- test-mbsstr3.sh.log ---
PASS: test-mbsstr3.sh
--- test-nl_langinfo.sh.log ---
PASS: test-nl_langinfo.sh
--- test-setlocale1.sh.log ---
PASS: test-setlocale1.sh
--- test-setlocale2.sh.log ---
PASS: test-setlocale2.sh
--- uniwidth/test-uc_width2.sh.log ---
PASS: uniwidth/test-uc_width2.sh
--- test-update-copyright.sh.log ---
PASS: test-update-copyright.sh
--- test-vc-list-files-git.sh.log ---
PASS: test-vc-list-files-git.sh
--- test-vc-list-files-cvs.sh.log ---
--- test-mbsstr2.sh.log ---
PASS: test-mbsstr2.sh
--- test-verify.sh.log ---
--- test-vc-list-files-cvs.sh.log ---
PASS: test-vc-list-files-cvs.sh
--- test-verify.sh.log ---
PASS: test-verify.sh
A failure has been detected in another branch of the parallel make

make: stopped in /tmp/grep-2.8.30-5f78-dirty/gnulib-tests
*** [check-TESTS] Error code 2
1 error

make: stopped in /tmp/grep-2.8.30-5f78-dirty/gnulib-tests
*** [check-am] Error code 2
1 error

make: stopped in /tmp/grep-2.8.30-5f78-dirty/gnulib-tests
*** [check-recursive] Error code 1
1 error

make: stopped in /tmp/grep-2.8.30-5f78-dirty/gnulib-tests
*** [check] Error code 2
1 error

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A simple "make check" succeeds.  This is a very minor nit, agreed, but
I think that pointing it out won't hurt.

Regards,
  Stefano