Re: the release of grep-2.9 is imminent

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Tuesday 21 June 2011, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> ...
> >> FYI, I've just pushed the following.
> >> Now, I expect to tag grep-2.9 and release later today.
> >> Last chance...
> >>
> > On NetBSD 5.1, I'm seeing this failure by running `make -j2' in the
> > gnulib-tests subdirectory:
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> That sounds really minor indeed, so I won't worry about it for now.
>
I agree that this is the most sensible choice, since you're going to
do a bug-fixing release.

JFTR, there is still another problem (even minor than that, so you might
ignore it too for the moment); after checking out and bootstrapping grep
from the git repository, the working copy is left with uncommitted
modifications:

  $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/grep 
  ...
  $ cd grep
  $ ./bootstrap
  ...
  ./bootstrap: ln -fs ../gnulib/build-aux/depcomp build-aux/depcomp
  ./bootstrap: ln -fs ../gnulib/build-aux/config.guess build-aux/config.guess
  ./bootstrap: ln -fs ../gnulib/build-aux/config.sub build-aux/config.sub
  ./bootstrap: ln -fs gnulib/doc/INSTALL INSTALL
  ./bootstrap: Creating po/Makevars from po/Makevars.template ...
  ./bootstrap: done.  Now you can run './configure'.
  $ git status
  # On branch master
  # Changed but not updated:
  #   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  #   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
  #
  #       modified:   .gitignore
  #       modified:   build-aux/.gitignore
  #       modified:   doc/.gitignore
  #       modified:   po/.gitignore
  #
  no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
  $ git diff
  diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
  index 04320a6..818afc1 100644
  --- a/.gitignore
  +++ b/.gitignore
  @@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
  -!/gnulib-tests/Makefile.am
  -!/lib/Makefile.am
  -!/lib/savedir.c
  -!/lib/savedir.h
  -!/m4/djgpp.m4
   *.a
   *.exe
   *.o
  @@ -58,3 +53,8 @@ ChangeLog
   Makefile
   Makefile.in
   TAGS
  +!/gnulib-tests/Makefile.am
  +!/lib/Makefile.am
  +!/lib/savedir.c
  +!/lib/savedir.h
  +!/m4/djgpp.m4
  diff --git a/build-aux/.gitignore b/build-aux/.gitignore
  index a561ced..f8d7fb8 100644
  --- a/build-aux/.gitignore
  +++ b/build-aux/.gitignore
  @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
  +
   /announce-gen
   /arg-nonnull.h
   /c++defs.h
  @@ -21,3 +22,4 @@
   /useless-if-before-free
   /vc-list-files
   /warn-on-use.h
  +
  diff --git a/doc/.gitignore b/doc/.gitignore
  index be8a6c1..4d5e8aa 100644
  --- a/doc/.gitignore
  +++ b/doc/.gitignore
  @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
  +
   /egrep.1
   /fgrep.1
   /gendocs_template
  @@ -5,3 +6,4 @@
   /stamp-vti
   /texinfo.tex
   /version.texi
  +
  diff --git a/po/.gitignore b/po/.gitignore
  index aac9940..c136c67 100644
  --- a/po/.gitignore
  +++ b/po/.gitignore
  @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
  +
   *.gmo
   *.po
   *.pot
  @@ -15,3 +16,4 @@
   /quot.sed
   /remove-potcdate.sed
   /remove-potcdate.sin
  +

Regards,
  Stefano

P.S. I will be off-line until this evening at least, so I
won't be able to provide feedback.  Sorry about that.