Re: bug#22702: [bug-grep] grep-2.23 build feedback

2016-09-08 Thread Jim Meyering
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> I actually wrote a patch to fix the automake bug that led to this, >> but did not find the time to write a stand-alone test case. >> Today, I wrote the commit log entry and am attaching the >> incomplete diff (no NEWS a

Re: bug#22702: [bug-grep] grep-2.23 build feedback

2016-09-08 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering wrote: I actually wrote a patch to fix the automake bug that led to this, but did not find the time to write a stand-alone test case. Today, I wrote the commit log entry and am attaching the incomplete diff (no NEWS and no test) here, in case someone wants to help move this along bef

Re: bug#22702: [bug-grep] grep-2.23 build feedback

2016-02-18 Thread Jim Meyering
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: ... Thank you for all of the feedback. I agree that many of the failures are due to inadequate library support, and we should eventually improve the tests to detect the inferior interfaces and diagnose them as such. However, that is not on