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Re: sanity.sh fails with GNU sh-utils 2.0.x
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: sanity.sh fails with GNU sh-utils 2.0.x |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:38:46 +0100 |
Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> wrote:
> sanity.sh from the current CVS fails on Red Hat 8.0 in version-1. It
> turns out that the version of expr from sh-utils 2.0.12 has a problem.
> If I use expr from sh-utils 1.16, the test is OK.
>
> The problem is that ".*" matches the newline. Here's the test:
>
> =========================================
> # expr from GNU sh-utils 2.0.x: ".*" matches newline.
> if $EXPR 'a
> b' : 'a.*
> b' >/dev/null; then
> : good, it works
> else
> echo 'Running these tests requires an "expr" program that can handle' >&2
> echo 'multi-line patterns. It looks like you have buggy expr from' >&2
> echo 'GNU sh-utils 2.0.x.' >&2
> exit 1
> fi
> =========================================
>
> If I add this test to sanity.sh, expr 2.0.12 doesn't pass it, but 1.16
> does. Unfortunetely, expr from sh-utils 2.0.15 has the same problem as
> 2.0.12. I don't know, maybe it's intended to be like that. I'm using C
> locale, but setting it to en_US has no effect.
Hi Pavel,
Thanks for the report.
Using the latest test release (compiled against libc-2.3.1),
I can't reproduce that problem. And there haven't been any
significant changes to expr.c since 2.0.15. Would you please
see the same problem using the latest test release?
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/coreutils-4.5.4.tar.bz2
(coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)
If you *do* reproduce your problem, please let me know whether
your build used lib/regex.o or not, and include the output of
running /lib/libc.so.*.
Jim