On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Assaf Gordon <assafgor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >>> On Jul 31, 2016, at 21:15, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: >>> >>> Here's a new snapshot: >>> [...] >>> http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-3.3.52-e974.tar.xz >>> >>> Changes in diffutils since 3.3.50-0353: >>> >>> Jim Meyering (2): >>> tests: colors: fix a portability problem and work around a shell bug >>> maint: remove gl/lib/reg*.c.diff; no longer needed >> >> With this update, no more failures on the tested gnu/linux system, but few >> failures on others (BSDs, Mac OS X, AIX, OpenSolaris). >> >> For BSD/Mac OS X/AIX, it seems the 'color' test uses 'touch --date' which is >> a gnu extension and is not available. >> Perhaps that leads to other failures. >> >> For OpenSolaris 5.10 (both i86pc and sparc) 'make check' does not complete >> (perhaps an old shell syntax issue). >> >> For GNU Hurd 0.7, the test 'brief-vs-stat-zero-kernel-lies' fails. > > Great! Thanks again for all of that quick feedback. > So far I've only looked at the solaris 5.10 build failure, and wrote > the attached that I hope will fix it. It upgrades to the > infrastructure (forgot I hadn't yet done it for diffutils) that is > used already to good effect in at least grep, sed, coreutils. Would > you please let me know if this fixes it?
I've gone ahead and pushed that with a tweak to make envvars check one more variable name: GREP_OPTIONS.
