[bug-gettext] [bug #47674] gettext test suite fails with grep 2.24

[Dominique Leuenberger]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47674>

                 Summary: gettext test suite fails with grep 2.24
                 Project: GNU gettext
            Submitted by: dimstar
            Submitted on: Tue 12 Apr 2016 11:16:59 AM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

While running make check using 'grep 2.24', the test suite fails:

[  540s]
============================================================================
[  540s] Testsuite summary for gettext-tools 0.19.6
[  540s]
============================================================================
[  540s] # TOTAL: 408
[  540s] # PASS:  373
[  540s] # SKIP:  27
[  540s] # XFAIL: 0
[  540s] # FAIL:  8
[  540s] # XPASS: 0
[  540s] # ERROR: 0
[  540s]
============================================================================
[  540s] See tests/test-suite.log
[  540s] Please report to address@hidden

The reason is the way grep handles auto-detection of binary files vs pure text
files (in case of gettext, we pipe everything)

The easiest solution is to change "grep -v" to "grep -a -v", thus forcing
'text' mode






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