bug#19005: new snapshot available: grep-2.20.83-06900

[Bruce Dubbs]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Testing the first snapshot exposed several problems,
> and most have been addressed. The sole remaining problem
> is the failure of an "expensive" (not run by default: big-match)
> that makes most systems run out of memory. I haven't looked at it yet.
>
> Thanks to all who have helped so far, this snapshot should be
> much closer to releasable.
>
> Please let us know if you find any problems.
>
> grep snapshot:
>    http://meyering.net/grep/grep-2.20.83-06900.tar.xz

For LFS, a basic system the tests give:

Testsuite summary for GNU grep 2.20.83-06900
============================================================
# TOTAL: 85
# PASS:  71
# SKIP:  13
# XFAIL: 1
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0

big-hole: skipped test: expensive: disabled by default
big-match: skipped test: expensive: disabled by default
long-line-vs-2GiB-read: skipped test: expensive: disabled by default
pcre: skipped test: no PCRE support
pcre-abort: skipped test: no PCRE support
pcre-infloop: skipped test: no PCRE support
pcre-invalid-utf8-input: skipped test: no PCRE support
pcre-o: skipped test: no PCRE support
pcre-utf8: skipped test: no PCRE support
pcre-w: skipped test: no PCRE support
pcre-wx-backref: skipped test: no PCRE support
pcre-z: skipped test: no PCRE support
sjis-mb: skipped test: SJIS locale not found
XFAIL: triple-backref

Testsuite summary for GNU grep 2.20.83-06900
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 137
# PASS:  130
# SKIP:  7
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0

SKIP: test-vc-list-files-git.sh
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

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On a more compete LFS system the pcre and git tests also:

SKIP: big-hole
SKIP: big-match
SKIP: long-line-vs-2GiB-read
SKIP: sjis-mb
XFAIL: triple-backref

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

  -- Bruce Dubbs
     linuxfromscratch.org