Re: [Grep-devel] [platform-testers] new snapshot available: grep-3.1.51-e767

[Jim Meyering]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 9:22 AM Jose E. Marchesi <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 9:13 AM Jose E. Marchesi <address@hidden> wrote:
>     > In Oracle Linux 6.9 on a SPARC S7 (sparc64):
>     >
>     > pcre: skipped test: no PCRE support
>     > SKIP: pcre
>     > pcre-abort: skipped test: no PCRE support
>     ...
>     >
>     > I had to manually skip mb-non-UTF8-performance because the `times' perl
>     > command in this system always returns 0 for all four times, so the while
>     > loop in the test driver never finishes (ugh).
>
>     Ugh. Which version of perl is that? I.e., what does perl -V print?
>     After the release, I'll consider adding a require_perl_times_ function
>     that will cause that test to be skipped on such systems.
>
> perl5 revision 5 version 10 subversion 1.  See below for the detailed
> output of perl -V.

Thanks.
Can you confirm that this one-liner really prints only "0" there?

perl -le 'system (@ARGV); my ($u, $s, $cu, $cs) = times; print $cu'
timeout 1 perl -e '$t=1; while (1) { $t = sqrt $t }'

> [...]
> After installing pcre-devel most of the SKIP go away.  The one that
> remains is:
>
> sjis-mb: skipped test: SJIS locale not found
> SKIP: sjis-mb

I used to avoid that by installing some JIS or SJIS multi-byte locale.