Re: Failing test on Solaris 8 Sparc w/Sun Studio 11

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

Am 25.01.2010 um 12:59 schrieb Dagobert Michelsen:
> I have a failing test on Solaris 8 Sparc with Sun Studio 11, all  
> other tests
> run fine.
>
> > ================================
> >   gzip 1.4: ./test-suite.log
> > ================================
> >
> > 1 of 5 tests failed.
> >
> > .. contents:: :depth: 2
> >
> >
> > FAIL: tests/zgrep-f (exit: 1)
> > =============================

Further investigation showed that the problem is a call of the generic  
system-wide
grep from Solaris in zgrep which doesn't understand several of the  
flags. Replacing
the invocation with a gnu grep solved the problem:

> --- a/zgrep.in
> +++ b/zgrep.in
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ case $1 in
>  esac
>  PATH=$bindir:$PATH
>
> -grep='${GREP-grep}'
> +grep='${GREP-/opt/csw/bin/ggrep}'
>
>  version='zgrep (gzip) @VERSION@
>  Copyright (C) 2007, 2009-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

However, I think it would be nice to detect a grep during configure time
which knows the flags or let the packager choose a grep to be included
without patching the source.


Best regards

  -- Dago