Re: the release of grep-2.9 is imminent

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:

> On 06/17/2011 06:45 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> I'm prepared to release grep-2.9.
>> There have been more than enough fixes since 2.8:
>> (from NEWS):
>
> In the tests directory, some but not all of the tests are marked
> executable.  For example, when I did a git pull, I noticed:
>
>  create mode 100644 tests/bogus-wctob
>  create mode 100755 tests/dfa-heap-overrun
>  create mode 100644 tests/equiv-classes
>  create mode 100644 tests/high-bit-range
>  create mode 100644 tests/inconsistent-range
>  create mode 100755 tests/pcre-abort
>  create mode 100755 tests/turkish-I
>  create mode 100644 tests/unibyte-bracket-expr
>
> Should all of the tests be 755 rather than 644?

Thanks for looking.

I suppose I should make them consistent, but it really doesn't matter,
since each is invoked via "$(SHELL) test_name".
Back when scripts were invoked via ./test_name it used to matter.

There's a "make check" test (vc_exe_in_TESTS) in coreutils that ensures
all VC'd test scripts are executable, but it's not cheap, so I've been
toying with the idea of removing it.