Re: grep-3.8.11-908f on Cygwin

[Jim Meyering]

On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 6:49 AM Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:
> 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
...
> 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.

Bizarre indeed. Not worth holding up the release, imho.