On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: ... >>> http://meyering.net/grep/grep-2.20.72-d512.tar.xz ... > Linux From Scratch 7.6 > > configure and make were clean. > > $ env RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes make -k check > > big-match: skipped test: not enough main memory to run the test > sjis-mb: skipped test: SJIS locale not found > > I do have 8G of memory.
That test fails when grep fails to allocate enough space to hold a 2GiB line. No big deal, and not hard to imaging happening with a few applications in 8GiB of RAM.
