Re: [platform-testers] [Grep-devel] new snapshot available: grep-2.25.101-be82

[Jim Meyering]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 11:27 PM, Bruce Dubbs <address@hidden> wrote:
>>    http://meyering.net/grep/grep-2.25.101-be82.tar.xz
...
> Builds clean with gcc-5.3.0.
>
> Testsuite summary for GNU grep 2.25.101-be82
> ============================================================================
> # TOTAL: 103
> # PASS:  95
> # SKIP:  6
> # XFAIL: 2
> # FAIL:  0
> # XPASS: 0
> # ERROR: 0
>
> XFAIL: backref-alt
> XFAIL: triple-backref
> SKIP: big-hole
> SKIP: big-match
> SKIP: long-line-vs-2GiB-read
> SKIP: long-pattern-perf
> SKIP: mb-non-UTF8-performance
> SKIP: sjis-mb (locale not found)
>
>
> Testsuite summary for GNU grep 2.25.101-be82
> ============================================================================
> # TOTAL: 142
> # PASS:  136
> # SKIP:  6
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL:  0
> # XPASS: 0
> # ERROR: 0
>
> SKIP: test-vc-list-files-cvs.sh
> SKIP: test-wcrtomb-w32-1.sh
> SKIP: test-wcrtomb-w32-2.sh
> SKIP: test-wcrtomb-w32-3.sh
> SKIP: test-wcrtomb-w32-4.sh
> SKIP: test-wcrtomb-w32-5.sh
>
> $ lsb_release -a
> LSB Version:    unavailable
> Distributor ID: Linux From Scratch
> Description:    Linux From Scratch
> Release:        SVN-20160104
> Codename:       bdubbs-jhalfs
>
> -------------------------------------
>
> On a newer system: GNU Make 4.2.1, gcc-6.2.0, glibc-2.24
>
> Build was clean, but make said:
>
> make[2]: Entering directory '/home/bdubbs/grep-2.25.101-be82/lib'
> Makefile:1699: target '.deps/alloca.Po' given more than once in the same
> rule
>
> This message was given twice.
>
> Test counts were the same as above, but also said:
>
> mb-non-UTF8-performance: skipped test: expensive: disabled by default
> SKIP: mb-non-UTF8-performance
>  warning: \s failed to match \x0a in the en_US.UTF-8 locale
>  warning: \s failed to match \x85 in the en_US.UTF-8 locale
>  warning: \s failed to match \xc2\xa0 in the en_US.UTF-8 locale
>  warning: \S mistakenly matched \xc2\xa0 in the en_US.UTF-8 locale
>  warning: \s failed to match \xe2\x80\x87 in the en_US.UTF-8 locale
>  warning: \S mistakenly matched \xe2\x80\x87 in the en_US.UTF-8 locale
>  warning: \s failed to match \xe2\x80\x8b in the en_US.UTF-8 locale
>  warning: \S mistakenly matched \xe2\x80\x8b in the en_US.UTF-8 locale
>  warning: \s failed to match \xe2\x80\xaf in the en_US.UTF-8 locale
>  warning: \S mistakenly matched \xe2\x80\xaf in the en_US.UTF-8 locale
> PASS: multibyte-white-space

Thank you for the quick testing and the reports.

Those warnings are expected, even on modern systems. Each character is
listed as having the whitespace attribute, and hence \s should match
it and \S should not.