bug#24256: new module for grep's DFA matcher

[Jim Meyering]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> Sounds like it must be something fundamental. I've just confirmed that
>> at commit v2.25-100-gcd8082e `./bootstrap && ./configure && make &&
>> make distcheck` succeeds on both Fedora 24 and Debian unstable.
>>
>> Did you rerun ./bootstrap?
>
>
> Yes.
>
> I think the difference is that I'm not running plain 'make' first. I jump
> straight to 'make dist'. That is, from a fresh copy of grep (same commit as
> yours), I run:
>
> ./bootstrap && ./configure && make dist
>
> and this gets the tight_scope failure I mentioned earlier, on Ubuntu 16.04.1
> LTS anyway.

Oh, thanks. That was indeed a missing dependency.
This patch fixes it for me:

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