Re: grep-2.5 make check permission problem (WAS: Re: Problemcompiling tests for grep 2.5)

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Gerhard Poul <address@hidden>
> Date: 08 Dec 2002 17:42:47 +0100
> NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 16:48:08 +0000 (UTC)
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> 
> Verified. - Seems to be a simple permission problem in the
> grep-2.5.tar.gz on ftp.gnu.org.
> 
> Can anyone please fix this on the server directly or do we need to
> wait for a whole new release?

We shouldn't need to wait for a new release to fix a packaging
problem.  The usual strategy is to build a new tarball named
grep-2.5a, which is identical to grep-2.5 except for the packaging
fix.

I'd wait for the grep maintainer to OK this before doing it, though.