Re: grep-2.6.3 imminent: please test this snapshot

[Shiva Iyer]

make check fails at include-exclude. Here are the relevant lines from the
log. The entire log file is attached.

+ grep -r --include=a . x
+ compare out exp-a
+ diff -u out exp-a
+ grep -r '--include=a*' . x
+ compare out exp-a
+ diff -u out exp-a
--- out 2010-04-01 09:00:41.300994294 -0400
+++ exp-a       2010-04-01 09:00:41.264995904 -0400
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-x/dir/d:d
-x/b:b
+x/a:a
+ fail=1
+ Exit 1

332,1         79%


On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:

> There is a bug in grep-2.6.2 that can make grep -F infloop.
> I think we've addressed all of the pending problems except
> one reported by Norihirio Tanaka (we're deliberately deferring
> work on that, since it is so far out on the fringe of usefulness).
>
> I would like to release grep-2.6.3 in a few hours,
> so any feedback before then would be most welcome.
>
> Here's the NEWS:
> -------------------------------
> ** Bug fixes
>
>  Searching with grep -F for an empty string in a multibyte locale
>  would hang grep. [bug introduced in 2.6.2]
>
>  PCRE support is once again detected on systems with <pcre/pcre.h>
>  [bug introduced in 2.6.2]
>
> And here's the snapshot info:
> -------------------------------
>
> grep snapshot: (.gz files are here, too)
>  http://meyering.net/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz      812 KB
>  http://meyering.net/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz.sig
>  http://meyering.net/grep/grep-2.6.2.22-cb3f.tar.xz
>
> There are .gz and .sig files here, too:
>  http://people.redhat.com/meyering/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz
>  http://people.redhat.com/meyering/grep/grep-2.6.2.22-cb3f.tar.xz
>
> Changes in grep since 2.6.2:
>
> Eric Blake (1):
>      build: avoid another warning
>
> Jim Meyering (13):
>      post-release administrivia
>      build: detect PCRE support also when <pcre/pcre.h> is the header
>      build: avoid compiler warning when building test program
>      doc: add a "Reply-To" to the suggested announcement mail header
>      doc: prepare to generate grep.1
>      doc: generate grep.1 from template
>      doc: generated files are best made read-only, ...
>      doc: fix typo: s/AM_V_AT/AM_V_at/
>      grep: remove unnecessary code
>      tests: use printf, not echo -n, echo -e, or any combination
>      tests: new function, to require an en_US UTF8 locale
>      tests: add explicit requirement for en_US.UTF-8
>      tests: remove all unportable uses of echo
>
> Paolo Bonzini (8):
>      tests: fix -Wformat failure
>      tests: use get-mb-cur-max in char-class-multibyte
>      tests: convert empty.sh to new style
>      tests: rename empty.sh to empty
>      grep: fix grep -F against empty string
>      tests: improve empty test with respect to locales
>      tests: improve empty test
>      tests: fix on systems with broken sh
>
>
> Changes in gnulib since 2.6.2:
>
> none
>
>
>

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