Re: [Grep-devel] new snapshot available: grep-2.28.3-6e4c

[Dennis Clarke]

On 02/09/2017 05:42 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I tested the snapshot successfully on:

> * Solaris 10 sparc with circa-2007 Sun C 5.9 a.k.a. Sun Studio 12
> (again, both 64- and 32-bit mode).  (Still a production host here!)

I have some big Oracle SPARC gear here ( everything from old Netra's up
to the new M-gear systems[1] ) and grep 2.28 builds out of the box clean
using the Oracle Studio 12.4 c99 compiler. In strict C99 compliance mode
also.  This is some seriously clean cross platform code Sir!  I have not
yet tested with the Oracle Studio 12.5 compilers but that will happen
shortly.

The only warning seen was this :

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gmake[2]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/build/grep-2.28_SunOS5.10_sparcv9.001/src'
  CC       dfasearch.o
  CC       grep.o
"grep.c", line 660: warning: initializer will be sign-extended: -1
  CC       kwsearch.o
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Yes I have a fairly up to date GNU tool chain on these servers with
very recent pcre. However, I think what I am saying is that grep-2.28
builds and tests clean on these old SPARC's with only a few interesting
bits in the "check" stage.  Nothing too interesting.  Stuff such as :

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SKIP: pcre-infloop
pcre-invalid-utf8-infloop: skipped test: your system lacks the timeout 
program
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PASS: turkish-I-without-dot
turkish-eyes: skipped test: your tr_TR.UTF-8 locale appears to be broken
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That last one is very odd given that I have all locales installed.

=======================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU grep 2.28
=======================================================================
# TOTAL: 109
# PASS:  84
# SKIP:  23
# XFAIL: 2
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
=======================================================================


Dennis Clarke
ye old UNIX/Linux greybeard

[1] no personal M7 yet but I have access to systems at Oracle