Re: grep-3.8.11-908f on Cygwin

[Bruno Haible]

On Cygwin 2.9.0, "make check" fails the first time:

Making check in tests
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/bruno/grep-3.8.11-908f/build-cygwin64/tests'
make  get-mb-cur-max.exe
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/bruno/grep-3.8.11-908f/build-cygwin64/tests'
  CC       get-mb-cur-max.o
  CCLD     get-mb-cur-max.exe
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/bruno/grep-3.8.11-908f/build-cygwin64/tests'
make  check-TESTS
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/bruno/grep-3.8.11-908f/build-cygwin64/tests'
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/bruno/grep-3.8.11-908f/build-cygwin64/tests'
PASS: backref
PASS: backref-alt
PASS: backref-multibyte-slow
PASS: backref-word
PASS: backslash-dot
PASS: backslash-s-and-repetition-operators
PASS: backslash-s-vs-invalid-multibyte
big-hole: skipped test: expensive: disabled by default
SKIP: big-hole
big-match: skipped test: expensive: disabled by default
SKIP: big-match
PASS: binary-file-matches
PASS: bogus-wctob
PASS: bre
PASS: c-locale
PASS: case-fold-backref
PASS: case-fold-backslash-w
PASS: case-fold-char-class
PASS: case-fold-char-range
PASS: case-fold-char-type
PASS: case-fold-titlecase
PASS: char-class-multibyte
PASS: char-class-multibyte2
PASS: color-colors
PASS: context-0
PASS: count-newline
PASS: dfa-coverage
PASS: dfa-heap-overrun
PASS: dfa-infloop
PASS: dfa-invalid-utf8
PASS: dfaexec-multibyte
PASS: empty
PASS: empty-line
PASS: empty-line-mb
PASS: encoding-error
PASS: epipe
XFAIL: equiv-classes
PASS: ere
PASS: euc-mb
false-match-mb-non-utf8: skipped test: no support for the zh_CN.gb18030 locale
SKIP: false-match-mb-non-utf8
PASS: fedora
PASS: fgrep-infloop
PASS: fgrep-longest
PASS: file
make[3]: *** [Makefile:3166: filename-lineno.log] Error 127
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/bruno/grep-3.8.11-908f/build-cygwin64/tests'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:2294: check-TESTS] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/bruno/grep-3.8.11-908f/build-cygwin64/tests'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:3214: check-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/bruno/grep-3.8.11-908f/build-cygwin64/tests'
make: *** [Makefile:1733: check-recursive] Error 1

But further runs succeed.

It looks like the /usr/bin/perl program, required as interpreter for
tests/filename-lineno, could not be run at the first attempt.

Bizarre.

Bruno