Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: grep-2.11.11-b00d1

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible wrote:

>> > grep snapshot:
>> >   http://meyering.net/grep/grep-2.11.11-b00d1.tar.xz
>
> Some more test results:
>
> HP-UX 11.00: All tests passed.
>
> IRIX 6.5: All tests passed.
>
> OSF/1 5.1: All tests passed.
>
> Solaris 9, 10: All tests passed.
>
> ===============================================================================
>
> AIX 5.3, 7.1:
> FAIL: symlink
>
> FAIL: symlink
> =============
>
> grep: e: No such file or directory
> *** exp       Wed Apr 11 19:01:45 2012
> --- out       Wed Apr 11 19:01:45 2012
> ***************
> *** 1,3 ****
> --- 1,4 ----
> + Binary file d matches

Thanks.  This is fixed by the following patch:

>From 4554efe5991100cccd043454b1a8776c2b9a3e6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:11:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tests: avoid spurious failure of the symlink test

* tests/symlink: Ignore spurious "Binary file d matches" on
systems for which reading from a directory actually succeeds.
Reported by Bruno Haible and Nelson Beebe.
---
 tests/symlink |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/symlink b/tests/symlink
index 012d8f8..674666b 100755
--- a/tests/symlink
+++ b/tests/symlink
@@ -57,7 +57,10 @@ do
     esac

     printf "$exp" >exp || framework_failure_
-    LC_ALL=C sort grepout >out || fail=1
+
+    # Ignore "Binary file d matches" on systems for which
+    # reading from a directory actually succeeds.
+    LC_ALL=C sort grepout|grep -v Binary >out || fail=1
     compare exp out || fail=1
   done
 done
--
1.7.10.128.g7945c