Problems/bugs in compiling grep-2.5 on Solaris 8

[Andy Tsouladze]

Hello,

I have found three problems while compiling GNU grep-2.5.

My environment:
---------------

Sparc Solaris 8, 64-bit, all tools are also 64-bit.

address@hidden:~# uname -a
SunOS sawww 5.8 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine

address@hidden:~# gcc -v
Reading specs from
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparcv9-sun-solaris2.8/3.3.2/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.3.2/configure --disable-nls
--host=sparcv9-sun-solaris2.8 --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.2

address@hidden:~# which gettext
/usr/local/bin/gettext

address@hidden:~# gettext -V
gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.13
Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 2000-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
Written by Ulrich Drepper.


Problems:
---------

1. I tried to install GNU grep without NLS support:

./configure --disable-nls
make

This results in the error below. It seems that dfa.o file is compiled
using NLS regardless of `--disable-nls' flag.

gcc  -g -O2  -R/usr/local/lib -o grep  grep.o dfa.o kwset.o search.o
grepmat.o ../lib/libgreputils.a
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
libintl_gettext                     dfa.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to grep
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [grep] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/src/grep-2.5/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/src/grep-2.5'
make: *** [all] Error 2

---------------------------------------------------

2. Test programs are not executable.

./configure
make
make check

This results in the following errors:

make  check-TESTS
make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/src/grep-2.5/tests'
/bin/bash: ./warning.sh: Permission denied
FAIL: warning.sh
/bin/bash: ./khadafy.sh: Permission denied
FAIL: khadafy.sh
/bin/bash: ./spencer1.sh: Permission denied
FAIL: spencer1.sh
/bin/bash: ./bre.sh: Permission denied
FAIL: bre.sh
/bin/bash: ./ere.sh: Permission denied
FAIL: ere.sh
/bin/bash: ./status.sh: Permission denied
FAIL: status.sh
/bin/bash: ./empty.sh: Permission denied
FAIL: empty.sh
/bin/bash: ./options.sh: Permission denied
FAIL: options.sh
PASS: backref.sh
PASS: file.sh
====================
8 of 10 tests failed
====================

ls -l tests/*.sh

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         874 Nov 19  2001 tests/backref.sh*
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         216 Nov 19  2001 tests/bre.sh
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         798 Nov 19  2001 tests/empty.sh
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         216 Nov 19  2001 tests/ere.sh
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        1155 Nov 19  2001 tests/file.sh*
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         368 Nov 19  2001 tests/khadafy.sh
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         925 Nov 19  2001 tests/options.sh
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         236 Nov 19  2001 tests/spencer1.sh
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         229 Nov 19  2001 tests/spencer2.sh
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        1262 Nov 19  2001 tests/status.sh
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         331 Nov 19  2001 tests/warning.sh

-------------------------------------------------

3. One test fails

After changing permissions on tests/*.sh scripts (see above) and
re-running `make check', I get one failure:

Spencer bre test #16 failed
FAIL: bre.sh

------------------------------------------------



Dr Andy Tsouladze
Sr Unix SysAdmin
UAL Loyalty Services