bug#16380: Failing tests on Solaris in 2.16

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Jim,

Am 07.01.2014 um 19:20 schrieb Jim Meyering <address@hidden>:
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I have two failing tests for GNU grep 2.16 on Solaris 10 Sparc with Sun 
>> Studio 12:
>>  http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/~dam/grep-2.16-test-suite.log
>> 
>> Both boil down to the error
>> 
>>  + /bin/sh ere.script
>>  ere.script: syntax error at line 3: `status=$’ unexpected
>> 
>> generated from bre.awk using the bashism
>> 
>>  printf ("status=$(echo '%s' | { grep -e '%s' > /dev/null 2>&1; echo $? ; 
>> })\n",$3, $2);
> 
> Hi Dago,
> Thanks for the report.
> Does the attached patch fix it for you?
> <k.txt>

This solves one of the errors, the other one persists:

+ /bin/sh spencer1-locale.script
spencer1-locale.script: syntax error at line 2: `status=$' unexpected


Best regards

  — Dago


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