Re: diffutils-3.8.43-2d50 on Solaris 11.4

[Bruno Haible]

On Solaris 11.4, one of the test fails:

FAIL: colors

Find attached the logs.

The log shows this:

++ diff -u a b
++ grep -F .
grep: illegal option -- F
Usage: grep [-c|-l|-q] -bhinsvw pattern file . . .
+ nanosecond_zeros=

The value of nanosecond_zeros is wrong, because the command 'grep -F .' failed.

On Solaris 11.4, there are 4 grep programs:
  - /usr/bin/grep and /usr/ccs/bin/grep do NOT support the -F option.
  - /usr/xpg4/bin/grep and /usr/gnu/bin/grep do support the -F option.
The default $PATH contains only /usr/bin/grep.

The simplest fix is to replace, in tests/colors, the command
  grep -F .
with
  grep '\.'
or
  grep '[.]'
I have tested both.

Bruno

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