mbakke pushed a commit to branch core-updates
in repository guix.
commit 8c8ded2cc9201e69e87999bb40ef09c6c868deb8
Author: Marius Bakke <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Aug 24 16:37:50 2018 +0200
gnu: grep: Work around test failure with glibc 2.28.
* gnu/packages/base.scm (grep)[arguments]: Add phase
'disable-failing-tests'.
---
gnu/packages/base.scm | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm
index 114413b..1c652bc 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm
@@ -102,6 +102,15 @@ command-line arguments, multiple languages, and so on.")
(arguments
`(#:phases
(modify-phases %standard-phases
+ (add-before 'check 'disable-failing-tests
+ (lambda _
+ ;; These tests are expected to fail due to a glibc bug which has
+ ;; been fixed in 2.28, so they are unexpectedly passing. They
+ ;; should be fixed for grep versions > 3.1.
+ (substitute* "tests/Makefile.in"
+ (("^[[:blank:]]+backref-alt[[:blank:]]+\\\\") "\\")
+ (("^[[:blank:]]+triple-backref[[:blank:]]+\\\\") "\\"))
+ #t))
(add-after 'install 'fix-egrep-and-fgrep
;; Patch 'egrep' and 'fgrep' to execute 'grep' via its
;; absolute file name instead of searching for it in $PATH.
