Re: new snapshot available: grep-3.4-almost.26-5419

[Bruce Dubbs]

On 9/17/20 11:49 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Here's another pre-release snapshot.
>
> Thanks to everyone who has been testing and fixing issues with
> the preceding one. Pretty many issues have been addressed
> already, though clearly some still remain.
>
> If you find time to test, please send results, both successes
> and failures to platform-testers@gnu.org or grep-devel@gnu.org.
>
> grep snapshot:
>    https://meyering.net/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz      1.6 MB
>    https://meyering.net/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz.sig
>    https://meyering.net/grep/grep-3.4-almost.26-5419.tar.xz

On a LinuxFromScratch system (LFS-10.0) make check gives:


   GNU grep 3.4-almost.26-5419: tests/test-suite.log
=======================================================

# TOTAL: 114
# PASS:  0
# SKIP:  113
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  1
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0

Where all the SKIPs say:
backref: skipped test: failed to find an adequate shell

But we have: $ bash --version
GNU bash, version 5.0.11(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

$ ls -l /bin/bash /bin/sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 893776 Aug 14 18:27 /bin/bash
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4 Aug 14 13:16 /bin/sh -> bash


The failure is:

FAIL: filename-lineno
=====================

invalid-re...
sh: line 1: 15041 Segmentation fault      grep -f g > invalid-re.O 2> 
invalid-re.E
filename-lineno.pl: test invalid-re failed: exit status mismatch: 
expected 2, got 139
invalid-re-2-files...
sh: line 1: 15043 Segmentation fault      grep -f g -f h > 
invalid-re-2-files.O 2> invalid-re-2-files.E
filename-lineno.pl: test invalid-re-2-files failed: exit status 
mismatch:  expected 2, got 139
invalid-re-2-files2...
sh: line 1: 15045 Segmentation fault      grep -f g -f h > 
invalid-re-2-files2.O 2> invalid-re-2-files2.E
filename-lineno.pl: test invalid-re-2-files2 failed: exit status 
mismatch:  expected 2, got 139
invalid-re-line-numbers...
sh: line 1: 15047 Segmentation fault      grep -f g -f h > 
invalid-re-line-numbers.O 2> invalid-re-line-numbers.E
filename-lineno.pl: test invalid-re-line-numbers failed: exit status 
mismatch:  expected 2, got 139
invalid-re-2e...
sh: line 1: 15049 Segmentation fault      grep -e "1[[" -e "2[[" > 
invalid-re-2e.O 2> invalid-re-2e.E
filename-lineno.pl: test invalid-re-2e failed: exit status mismatch: 
expected 2, got 139
FAIL filename-lineno.pl (exit status: 1)

Other information on the system is available on request.

  -- Bruce