Re: [Grep-devel] grep-2.27 released [stable]

[Michael Felt]

Just thought I would mention that make check has one fail (and many skips).

../../src/grep-2.27/gnulib-tests/test-symlink.h:43: assertion 'errno
== ENOENT || errno == EINVAL' failed
FAIL test-symlink (exit status: 134)

I believe the "fail" is related to using an NFS share for the build.
-- BECAUSE --

When I run the "make check" command using a "local" filesystem, the summary is:
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU grep 2.27
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 142
# PASS:  123
# SKIP:  19
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================

Note: AIX 5.3 TL7 with xlc v11 as compiler.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> This is to announce grep-2.27, a stable release.
>
> There have been 40 commits by 4 people in the 9 weeks since 2.26.
> Note that there were many additional important changes via gnulib.
>
> See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
>
> Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
> The following people contributed changes to this release:
>
>   Jim Meyering (11)
>   Mark Veltzer (2)
>   Paul Eggert (26)
>   Zev Weiss (1)
>
> Jim [on behalf of the grep maintainers]
> ==================================================================
>
> Here is the GNU grep home page:
>     http://gnu.org/s/grep/
>
> For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
>   http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grep.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.27
> or run this command from a git-cloned grep directory:
>   git shortlog v2.26..v2.27
>
> To summarize the 98 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
> from a git-cloned grep directory:
>   git checkout v2.27
>   git submodule summary v2.26
>
> Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
>   http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-2.27.tar.xz
>   http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-2.27.tar.xz.sig
>
> Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
>   http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/grep/grep-2.27.tar.xz
>   http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/grep/grep-2.27.tar.xz.sig
>
> [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
> .sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
> and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:
>
>   gpg --verify grep-2.27.tar.xz.sig
>
> If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
> then run this command to import it:
>
>   gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 7FD9FCCB000BEEEE
>
> and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
>
> This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
>   Autoconf 2.69.171-527f1
>   Automake 1.99a
>   Gnulib v0.1-995-gca3ca77
>
> ==================================================================
> NEWS
>
> * Noteworthy changes in release 2.27 (2016-12-06) [stable]
>
> ** Bug fixes
>
>   grep no longer reports a false match in a multibyte, non-UTF8 locale
>   like zh_CN.gb18030, with a regular expression like ".*7" that just
>   happens to match the 4-byte representation of gb18030's \uC9, the
>   final byte of which is the digit "7".
>   [bug introduced in grep-2.19]
>
>   grep by default now reads all of standard input if it is a pipe,
>   even if this cannot affect grep's output or exit status.  This works
>   better with nonportable scripts that run "PROGRAM | grep PATTERN
>   >/dev/null" where PROGRAM dies when writing into a broken pipe.
>   [bug introduced in grep-2.26]
>
>   grep no longer mishandles ranges in nontrivial unibyte locales.
>   [bug introduced in grep-2.26]
>
>   grep -P no longer attempts multiline matches.  This works more
>   intuitively with unusual patterns, and means that grep -Pz no longer
>   rejects patterns containing ^ and $ and works when combined with -x.
>   [bugs introduced in grep-2.23] A downside is that grep -P is now
>   significantly slower, albeit typically still faster than pcregrep.
>
>   grep -m0 -L PAT FILE now outputs "FILE".  [bug introduced in grep-2.5]
>
>   To output ':' and tab-align the following character C, grep -T no
>   longer outputs tab-backspace-':'-C, an approach that has problems if
>   run inside an Emacs shell window.  [bug introduced in grep-2.5.2]
>
>   grep -T now uses worst-case widths of line numbers and byte offsets
>   instead of guessing widths that might not work with larger files.
>   [bug introduced in grep-2.5.2]
>
>   grep's use of getprogname no longer causes a build failure on HP-UX.
>
> ** Improvements
>
>   grep no longer reads the input in a few more cases when it is easy
>   to see that matching cannot succeed, e.g., 'grep -f /dev/null'.
>
> ==================================================================
> Also posted as:
>   https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8750
>
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