Re: grep-2.5.4-20080209b test failures

[Ken Moffat]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:42:08AM -0400, Tony Abou-Assaleh wrote:
> > I tried compiling the new test release at
> > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-2.5.4-20080209b.tar.gz with gcc 4.2.3
> > on CentOS 5.  Two tests failed: foad1 and fmbtest.  Since there are
> > binary characters involved, I'll include the output as an attachment.
> 
> On Mac OS X and on Debian all tests pass except fmbtest.sh is skipped.
> 
> I confirm that these tests fail on CentOS 5, and same applies to
> grep-2.5.4-20071119 (plus the recently commented out tests).
> 
> I don't know what's different in CentOS 5 that's causing these tests to
> fail.
> 
> TAA
> 
 Silly suggestion - maybe your OS X and Debian boxes don't have the
cs_CZ.UTF-8 locale installed ?  That will certainly cause fmbtest to
be skipped, and a quick look at foad1 shows it too will not run the
remaining tests if the locale is missing (lines 137-140).

 I see the cs_CZ.UTF-8 failures in foad1 on recent linuxfromscratch
and derivatives, with pretty much the full set of locales installed,
for 2.5.3 and 2.5.4-20080209b (glibc-2.6 and newer).

Ken
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