grep-2.5 make check fails

[Matt Selsky]

$ grep --version
grep (GNU grep) 2.5

Copyright 1988, 1992-1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is 
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
PURPOSE.

$ uname -a
SunOS hazelnut 5.9 Generic_112233-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 Solaris


First, several of the scripts in test/ did not have the execute bit set.  

Second, I got the following test failure:

Spencer bre test #16 failed
FAIL: bre.sh