Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: grep-3.4-almost.46-b2228

[Jim Meyering]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 5:12 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> On 9/25/20 4:37 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
> > With the patch applied... The first set of tests got noisy:
>
> That's odd. I wouldn't expect test-regex.c changes to affect any other test.
>
> > $ cat grep-3.4-almost.46-b2228/gnulib-tests/test-regex.log
> > FAIL test-regex (exit status: 1)
>
> That's also odd, as there should be something in the log.
>
> Can you reproduce the problem just with Gnulib? Please build
> from the attached tarball, which I created from Gnulib via:
>
> ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir test-regex regex
> tar czf test-regex.tgz test-regex
>
> You should be able to build from the tarball by doing this:
>
> tar xf test-regex.tgz
> cd test-regex
> ./configure
> make check
>
> If this doesn't work, please send the contents of gltests/test-regex.log, and
> also the output of running:
>
> gltests/test-regex
> echo $?

Thanks for the new regex testing code where it still fails on OS X
(10.15.6 (19G2021)) and it printed this in the log:

  test-regex: re_search 'i' on 'İ' returned -1

Confirmed that flaw affects grep too, (added parens require use of regex):

$ LC_ALL=tr_TR.utf8 grep -i i <<< İ
[1]
$