Am 19.08.2012 16:50, schrieb Ramsay Jones: > Brian Gernhardt wrote: >> I've been getting a couple of test failures and finally had the >> time to track them down. >> >> t4034-diff-words fails tests "22 diff driver 'bibtex'" and "26 diff >> driver 'html'". Bisecting shows that the file started giving me >> errors in commit 8d96e72 "t4034: bulk verify builtin word regex >> sanity", which appears to introduce those tests. I don't see >> anything obviously wrong with the tests and I'm not familiar with >> the diff-words code, so I'm not sure what's wrong. >> >> I am running on OS X 10.8, with Xcode 4.4.1 (llvm-gcc 4.2.1). > > I had the same problem (or at least it *looks* like the same problem) > on Linux last year (May 2011), which turned out to be a bug in the > regex routines in an old version of glibc.
I also had the same problem, but did not remember why I don't have it anymore. Now that you mention it: It was the same situation and I came to the same conclusion (old glibc, bogus regex implementation). I worked it around with NO_REGEX=YesPlease in config.mak. -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
