Re: grep-3.3.42-088f test results on Minix

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Jim,

> > Seen on Minix 3.3:
> >
> > FAIL: include-exclude
> > FAIL: r-dot
> > FAIL: stack-overflow
> > FAIL: symlink
> > FAIL: word-multi-file
> 
> These all seem to be due to some kind of platform-specific
> dir-handling failure. E.g., this command:
>   grep -r aaa
> evokes this:
>   grep: .: Invalid argument

Yes. While the system's grep command supports the -r option:

  $ /usr/bin/grep -rl Jim .
  [List of all files that contain your name]

the just-built grep program doesn't:

  $ build/src/grep -rl Jim .
  grep: .: Invalid argument

I guess the problem lies within the gnulib fdopendir and related modules.
But since there is no debugger available on Minix [1], I'm not going to
spend time on it.

Bruno

[1] http://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=developersguide:debugging