Re: Tests erroneously assume

[Jim Meyering]

Ludovic Courtès wrote:
...
> They fix the problem:

Thanks, Ludo.
I see that all autobuilder tests are passing here, too:
  http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/grep-master

> SKIP: char-class-multibyte (exit: 77)
> =====================================
>
> char-class-multibyte: skipped test: en_US.UTF-8 locale not found
>
> Now I’m seeing this failure:
>
> FAIL: include-exclude (exit: 1)
> ===============================
>
> --- out 2010-04-01 10:23:01.000000000 +0000
> +++ exp-a       2010-04-01 10:23:01.000000000 +0000
> @@ -1,2 +1 @@
> -x/dir/d:d
> -x/b:b
> +x/a:a
>
> Running the test with sh -x shows that it comes from the last test:
>
> + grep -r '--include=a*' . x
> + compare out exp-a
> + diff -u out exp-a

That should have been fixed in 2.6.2.

Can you reproduce that failure even when building from
one of the just-announced snapshot tarballs?

If so, on what type of system.
Is there anything special about it?